Abstract People are using Social Network Services (SNSs) more and more in today's digital
and mobile world to communicate with the outside world rather than going face-to-face with …

Utilizing a mixed-methods research design consisting of two consecutive phases, this study
investigates older adults' perceptions and understanding of social connectedness factors …

Background The highly prevalent late-life loneliness, together with its deleterious health
impacts, calls for increasing attention to the need for effective interventions targeting on this …

Purpose To explore older adults' perceived relationship quality with migrant domestic
workers (MDWs) and examine the correlation between older adult/MDW (OM) relationship …

Although research and theory suggest that volunteers contribute to the quality of life of
senior people whom they serve, rigorous empirical investigation is missing for senior Hong …

Abstract In October 2018, the University of Michigan National Poll on Healthy Aging
conducted an online survey using a nationally representative household sample of adults …

This study was designed to explore the association between social integration and
loneliness for older Americans living in non-institutionalized settings. The final sample for …

China is experiencing a large increase in elderly population. In 2019, China's population
aged 60 and above had reached 253 million, accounting for 18.1% of the total population …

Abstract The World Health Organization's (WHO) age-friendly cities (AFC) framework is a
global movement to promote healthy and active aging in localized contexts. This study …

Older adults are at a high risk for loneliness, and community-based interventions can help
reduce loneliness for all older adults in a community, regardless of their migration status …