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<br />Ability to Live Independently <br />According to the AARP Second Half of Life Study, June 2022, fears about living independently increase as <br />adults age. AARP asked 2,580 qualified respondents if they feared needing help with caring for self, driving, <br />visiting family, household chores, and staying in current home. The results revealed that as respondents <br />increased in age, so did their fears about living independently. (Figure 15) <br />Figure 15 <br /> <br />COVID-19 <br />In early 2020, the world was hit <br />by a public health emergency <br />caused by the COVID-19 virus. <br />As the initial 2019 Novel Corona <br />(2019-nCoV) virus rapidly spread <br />across the country and the <br />world, governments took action <br />to try to mitigate the spread of <br />this deadly virus that was taking <br />peoples’ lives at an alarming <br />rate. <br /> <br />On February 28, 2020, the <br />Hawaiʻi County Mayor issued an Emergency Proclama?on declaring “a state of emergency due to the <br />outbreak of COVID-19 being recognized as a public health emergency of international concern and a public <br />health emergency for the United States”. March 4, 2020, the Governor of Hawaiʻi issued a Proclama?on <br />“declaring a state of emergency based on the actions and directives of the President of the United States, the <br />World Health Organization, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and current conditions <br />warranting preemptive and protective actions related to the outbreak of COVID-19”. The Secretary of Health <br />25 <br /> <br />