Loneliness and the health of older people

By Conor Ó Luanaigh, Brian Lawlor. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 2008

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Epidemiology, Health

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Citations in the corpus

• The Role of Healthcare Robots for Older People at Home: A Review (2014, background): “For older people living in the community loneliness has been linked to higher blood pressure, poor sleep, worse cognition over time [27,113,114], higher prevalence of dementia [115,116] and is an independent risk factor for depression [117,118].”
• Loneliness, social support networks, mood and wellbeing in community‐dwelling elderly (2009, background): “…Ltd. Received 9 July 2008 Accepted 27 October 2008 those of social networks, however, loneliness has been associated with a variety of negative health outcomes (O'Luanaigh and Lawlor, 2008), including an increased risk of all cause mortality (Seeman, 2000), and of suicide (Waern et al., 2003).”
• Self-compassion and Loneliness (2010, background): “These findings suggest that loneliness is likely to be more prevalent in older age (Ó Luanaigh & Lawlor, 2008).”
• Social isolation, loneliness and health in old age: a scoping review (2017, background): “As noted by O’Luanaigh and Lawlor (2008), integrating research on the drivers of loneliness and isolation with research on their impacts on health would allow researchers to understand better which dimensions are crucial to include in their studies.”
• Interventions to reduce social isolation and loneliness among older people: an integrative review (2018, background): “Background Loneliness and social isolation are major problems for older adults and are associated with adverse mental and physical health consequences (Luanaigh & Lawlor 2008).”