Objective To examine the prevalence of loneliness and its correlation with parent-child
support among older and oldest old persons and to provide evidences for implementing …

Objective The aim of this study was to evaluate the 1-year effect of the health-promoting
intervention “senior meetings” for older community-dwelling persons regarding loneliness …

Objectives Evidence-based strategies to reduce loneliness in later life are needed because
loneliness impacts all domains of health, functioning, and quality of life. Volunteering is a …

Background Oldest-old people are expected to be particularly likely to experience loneliness
due to the loss of their intimate partner or of same-aged social network members. It is …

Based on activity theory, this paper employed data from the 2013, 2015, and 2018 waves of
the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Survey, and adopted Hierarchical Linear …

The Caring Callers Program was developed as a telephone-based intervention utilizing
Senior Companion volunteers to reach older adults at greater risk for loneliness during the …

Objective During the ageing process the loss of family and social relationships is frequent
which conditions loneliness, similarly the current COVID-19 pandemic has generated more …

Social connections are important to maintain health across adulthood. Loneliness and social
isolation are global issues and are linked to negative mental health outcomes worldwide …

Introduction Loneliness is a key indicator of well-being in older adults. Drawing from the
ecological model of aging, the active aging perspective, and the convoy model of social …

The use of social networking sites (SNS) is widespread. Older adults, who are more likely to
be lonely in comparison with the rest of the population, lag in their SNS adoption compared …