Combating loneliness: a friendship enrichment programme for older women

By N. Stevens. Ageing & Society, 2001

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The Role of Social Relationships in Predicting Loneliness: The National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (2010, background): “This program aimed at coping with loneliness by developing new beneficent friendships (Stevens, 2001; Stevens & van Tilburg, 2000).”
A Meta-Analysis of Interventions to Reduce Loneliness (2010, background): “However, simply bringing lonely people together may not result in new friendships because the thoughts and behaviors of lonely individuals make them less attractive to one another as relationship partners (Jerrome, 1983; Stevens, 2001).”
No Employee an Island: Workplace Loneliness and Job Performance (2018, background): “For example, lonelier people have been shown to benefit significantly from intervention programs that focus on clarifying participants’ needs in friendship, analyzing their current social network, setting friendship goals, and developing strategies to achieve these goals (Stevens, 2001).”
Social support, social strain, loneliness, and well-being among older adults (2014, unknown): “A friendship enrichment program in the Netherlands has been successful in helping older women to cope with loneliness (Stevens, 2001).”
Assisting friendships, combating loneliness: users' views on a ‘befriending’ scheme (2003, background): “More recently, Stevens (2001) reviewed several programmes designed to promote the development of friendship among older people.”