Social Isolation, Loneliness and Health Among Older Adults

By C. Coyle, E. Dugan. Journal of Aging and Health, 2012

776 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, General Health Professions, Health

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In Clinical Psychology

1. J. Holt‐Lunstad
2. Timothy B. Smith
3. Emilie Courtin
4. Martin Knapp

In General Health Professions

1. J. Holt‐Lunstad
2. Timothy B. Smith
3. Emilie Courtin
4. Martin Knapp
5. Netta Achdut
6. Tehila Refaeli

In Health

1. J. Holt‐Lunstad
2. Timothy B. Smith
3. Emilie Courtin
4. Martin Knapp
5. Jenni Dykstra
6. H. Koenig
7. Netta Achdut
8. Tehila Refaeli

Citations in the corpus

• Loneliness and Social Isolation as Risk Factors for Mortality (2015, background): “Because social isolation and loneliness are often weakly correlated (Coyle & Dugan, 2012), simply increasing social contact may not mitigate loneliness.”
• Hearing Loss, Loneliness, and Social Isolation: A Systematic Review (2020, background): “Studies have found that social isolation and loneliness in older adults are weakly correlated with one another, suggesting that the two are related yet distinct constructs.(41) There are several potential mechanisms that could explain the observed association between hearing loss and social isolatio”
• Social isolation, loneliness and health in old age: a scoping review (2017, methodology): “Other studies have found that both isolation and loneliness were independent risk factors for a range of health outcomes (Shankar et al. 2011, 2013, Coyle and Dugan 2012).”