Has loneliness amongst older people increased? An investigation into variations between cohorts

By Christina Victor, S. Scambler, Sunil M. Shah, D. Cook, T. Harris, E. Rink, S. Wilde. Ageing & Society, 2002

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Subfields: Demography, Health, Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology

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The Prevalence of Loneliness Among Adults: A Case Study of the United Kingdom (2012, result): “Similarly, the prevalence of loneliness from the ESS data set of 10% for those aged 65 years and over is very similar to that from previous British studies (see Victor et al., 2002).”
‘I feel less lonely’: what older people say about participating in a social networking website (2010, background): “On one hand, Shapira and colleagues (2007) drew positive conclusions from their longitudinal of loneliness is likely to increase (Murphy, 2006; Ekwall et al, 2005; Victor et al, 2002).”
Loneliness as a specific risk factor for depressive symptoms: cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses. (2006, background): “(1997) reported that frequent loneliness was more common among those living alone, those lacking supportive neighbors or contact with friends, and those aged over 82 years (cf. Mullins, Sheppard, & Anderson, 1991; Victor et al., 2002).”
Age differences in loneliness from late adolescence to oldest old age. (2016, background): “The link between living alone and loneliness appears to be weakening over time, however (Victor et al., 2002), possibly because the proportion of people living alone has been rising steadily over the last decades in most Western nations (Klinenberg, 2012).”
The prevalence of and risk factors for loneliness among older people in China (2008, background): “It has been found that the prevalence of severe (‘always ’ or ‘often’) loneliness in the UK, North America, Australia and Saudi Arabia is around seven per cent and that this has been quite stable for several decades (Victor et al. 2002).”
Social isolation, loneliness and health in old age: a scoping review (2017, background): “Introduction An increasing number of older people are living alone and are at risk of being socially isolated (Victor et al. 2002, Savikko et al. 2005, Sundstr€om et al. 2009).”