1. No children, No partner: Loneliness among older adults before and during the COVID-19 pandemic • Bruno Arpino, University of Florence; Christine A. Mair, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Nekehia T. Quashie, Chulalongkorn University; Radoslaw Antczak, SGH Warsaw School of Economics.

2. Changes in health and social well-being in the Covid-19 clinically vulnerable older English population during the pandemic • Giorgio Di Gessa, University College London; Debora J. Price, University of Manchester.

3. The Impact of Covid-19 on the Demographic Structure of an Ageing Society. The Case of Spain • Miguel González-Leonardo, Centre d´Estudis Demogràfics; Jeroen Spijker, Centre d'Estudis Demogràfics (CED).

4. Profiling ageing in South Africa in the era of the coronavirus pandemic • Pranitha Maharaj, University of KwaZulu-Natal; Shanaaz Rademeyer, University of KwaZulu-Natal.