Loneliness and risk of Alzheimer disease.

By R. Wilson, Kristin R. Krueger, S. Arnold, Julie A. Schneider, J. Kelly, Lisa L. Barnes, Yuxiao Tang, David A. Bennett. Archives of General Psychiatry, 2007

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Health, Psychiatry and Mental health

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What Predicts Loneliness? Cultural Difference Between Individualistic and Collectivistic Societies in Europe (2014, background): “In part because of its pervasiveness, the study of loneliness is now at the center of a prolific area of multidisciplinary research (e.g., Akerlind & Hörnquist, 1992; Anderson, 1999; Dykstra, 2009; Imamoglu, Küller, Imamoglu, & Küller, 1993; McWhirter, 1990; Moore & Schultz, 1983; Rokach, Orzeck, Mo”
Granny and the robots: ethical issues in robot care for the elderly (2012, methodology): “It has been used at the Silverado Senior Living Apsen Park (Winner 2007).”
Social isolation in Covid-19: The impact of loneliness (2020, background): “It is considered to be a dark and miserable feeling, a risk factor for many mental disorders like depression, anxiety, adjustment disorder, chronic stress, insomnia or even late-life dementia (Wilson et al., 2007).”
Vulnerability to loneliness in people with intellectual disability: an explanatory model (2014, background): “Lonely people also engage in less physical activity (Newall, Chipperfield, Bailis, & Stewart, 2013), are more likely to be obese (Lauder, Mummery, Jones, & Caperchione, 2006) and, in later life, display greater cognitive decline (Wilson et al., 2007).”
Loneliness and the health of older people (2008, background): “More recently Wilson et al. (2007) analysed the association between loneliness and Alzheimer’s disease in 823 older adults over a 4-year period and found that the risk for developing Alzheimer’s dementia was substantially increased in those who Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 2008; 23: 1213–1221.”
Loneliness: Clinical Import and Interventions (2015, background): “In addition, loneliness is a risk factor for cognitive decline and the progression of Alzheimer’s disease (Wilson et al., 2007), recurrent stroke (for review see S.”
The impact of technology on older adults' social isolation (2016, background): “…without Author Details Click here to view linked References 2 significant in expanding and sustaining social contact, and improving emotional wellbeing (Cotton, Ford, Ford, & Hale, 2012; Wilson et al. 2007; Winstead et al., 2013).”
Loneliness Matters: A Theoretical and Empirical Review of Consequences and Mechanisms (2010, positive): “Depressive symptoms had a modest effect on Alzheimer’s disease risk, but loneliness continued to exert a significant and much larger influence on Alzheimer’s disease than depressive symptoms when depressive symptoms were included in the model [29].”
A Meta-Analysis of Interventions to Reduce Loneliness (2010, background): “Compared to nonlonely individuals, lonely people are also more likely to suffer from cognitive decline (Tilvis et al., 2004) and progression of Alzheimer’s disease (R. S. Wilson et al., 2007).”
Loneliness, Health, and Mortality in Old Age: A National Longitudinal Study (2012, neutral): “(Wilson et al., 2007).”
The Neurobiology of Social Distance (2020, positive): “Although short periods of loneliness in humans rarely have any long-term adverse outcomes, persistent loneliness escalates the risk of Alzheimer’s disease and depression [48,49].”
Social and Emotional Aging (2010, background): “A growing number of studies have found that older adults embedded in strong social networks and high levels of social activity are less likely than their more socially disengaged peers to experience declines in cognitive functioning (e.g., Barnes et al. 2004, Zunzunegui 2003, Wilson et al. 2007).”
Identifying Living Arrangements That Heighten Risk for Loneliness in Later Life (2011, background): “…that they are lacking salient aspects of social relationships (Hughes, Waite, Hawkley, & Cacioppo, 2004)—is a risk factor for a range of health problems, including depression, sleep dysfunction, cognitive decline, and mortality (Brummett et al., 2001; Cacioppo et al., 2002; Wilson et al., 2007).”
Religious Orders Study and Rush Memory and Aging Project (2018, positive): “Finally, loneliness was associated with AD risk and cognitive decline, but not with neuropathologies [30]; and we identiﬁed numerous genes in the amygdala and the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex related to loneliness [207, 208].”