For example, in the UK, double the number of people reported depressive symptoms compared to 2019, and a majority of people with depressive symptoms reported feeling lonely often or always (Office for National
Social isolation and loneliness are prevalent among older adults. This study investigated factors influencing worsening social isolation and loneliness in
Falls among older people are a major public health issue. It was estimated that 30–40% of older people fell at least once each year1,2, with over a third of falls resulting in injuries ranging from soft-tissue injury to hip fracture and intracranial trauma3,4. Consequently, falls are a...
We first calculated descriptive statistics and correlations between variables. Next, we used Structural Equation Modeling with Mplus version 7.3 (Muthén and Muthén, 1998–2012) to evaluate the cross-lagged autoregressive model (Finkel, 1995), outlined in Figure 1. The model allows for the simulta...
Loneliness in older adults is common, particularly in women. In this article, gender differences in the association of loneliness and health care use are investigated in a large sample of community-dwelling older adults. Methods Data of 2525 persons (ages 55–85 years)—participants of the fourth...
(including alcohol). In the UK, men drink significantly more alcohol than women, albeit this difference becomes smaller with age [24]. To our knowledge, though, no study has quantified whether loneliness shows a greater association with alcohol consumption in older men than it does in older ...
Fig. 2: Associations of loneliness with diseases among participants from the UK Biobank. aHR was adjusted for age, sex, ethnicity, assessment centre, education level, current employment status, smoking status, alcohol intake frequency, BMI and physical activity. Full size image As shown in Fig. ...
Citation1 China has the largest older population in the world and the fastest aging tendency. According to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics of China, in 2010, there were 120 million people over the age of 65 in China, accounting for 8.87% of the total population, and in...
Considering the general population, a recent integrative review concluded that a range of approaches to reduce loneliness and social isolation in older people are currently being tested or developed. It identified ‘psychological therapies’ as having the most ‘robust’ evidence to date. However, all...
Socio-demographic characteristics, physical burdens, mental health and depression were adjusted as potential confounders in all models. All statistical analyses were conducted using IBM SPSS Statistics 22. The significant level was set to p<0.05. Results Sample characteristics A sample of 497 older ...