Loneliness as a public health issue: the impact of loneliness on health care utilization among older adults.

By Kerstin Gerst-Emerson, J. Jayawardhana. American Journal of Public Health, 2015

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Consideration of the Psychological and Mental Health of the Elderly during COVID-19: A Theoretical Review (2020, background): “Additionally, as previous studies on the elderly have shown that social isolation is a “serious public health problem” [26] that increases the risk of cardiovascular, autoimmune, neurological, and mental health problems, the mental health problems of the elderly caused by COVID-19 should be more car”
Loneliness in the general population: prevalence, determinants and relations to mental health (2017, background): “In the Health and Retirement Study [23], the authors found that loneliness was significantly and positively associated with physician visits among persons aged 60 years and older.”