Lessons Learned from Recruiting Socially Isolated Older Immigrants for a Survey-based Study in Toronto

[para. 1]: " The COVID-19 pandemic brought to the forefront the detrimental health and social consequences of social isolation (Hosseinzadeh et al., 2022). For many older immigrant adults, these consequences are all too familiar. The loss of familiar social networks that resulted from immigrating to and settling in a new country coupled with systemic racism, language discordance, financial precarity, acculturation stress, limited mobility during winter months, costs of or lack of (accessible) transportation, and a lack of access to information and community resources, among other factors, contribute to their social isolation (Guruge et al., 2019; Sidani et al., 2022). Even though COVID-related public health restrictions have been lifted and there is return to ‘normalcy,’ older immigrant adults continue to experience social isolation. In this paper, opportunities, and challenges of reaching out to socially-isolated older immigrant adults in a research context are presented."