Dataset on cognitive and social well‑being of older adults around the COVID-19 pandemic: The CoSoWELL corpus of written life stories, release 2

This paper presents the revised and extended release 2 of the Cognitive and Social Well-Being (CoSoWELL) project. The dataset comprises data that was collected n at 8 different time points in the three-year period, between March 2019 until March 2022, thereby covering the entire duration of the COVID-19 pandemic. More than 2000 unique North American older adults (range: 55-84 years old) took part in this data collection. The dataset contains sociodemographic information, along with data on perceived loneliness, the size and quality of social network, frequency of social interactions, and emotion regulation. Personal narratives were also collected, which consisted of personal stories that drew upon long-term, short-term and prospective memory. This dataset can be used to study linguistic markers of loneliness and social isolation in older adults, especially during the times of crisis.