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| Loneliness, social isolation and living alone in later life | | Author(s) | Christina Victor, Ann Bowling, John Bond |
| Corporate Author | Growing Older (GO) Programme, Economic & Social Research Council - ESRC |
| Journal title | GO Findings: 17- Research Findings from the Growing Older Programme, May 2003 |
| Publisher | ESRC, Sheffield, May 2003 |
| Pages | 4 pp |
| Source | ESRC Growing Older Programme, Department of Sociological Studies, Elmfield, Northumberland Road, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TU. www.shef.ac.uk/uni/projects/gop/index.htm |
| Keywords | Loneliness ; Isolation ; Living alone ; Quality of life ; Social surveys ; Research Reviews. |
| Annotation | A critical element in older people's quality of life is social participation and engagement. This project uses a combination of qualitative and quantitative approaches to investigate three key dimensions of social participation: loneliness, isolation, and living alone in later life. The authors demonstrate that, overall, only a minority of older people are lonely (7%) or isolated (11.17%), and that this has shown little change in the past 50 years. They also show that while these concepts are inter-related, they are not the same. Their data demonstrate the dynamic nature of loneliness and isolation across the lifecourse and the varying pathways into loneliness in later life. They identify two distinct groups: those for whom loneliness is a continuation of previous experiences, and those for whom it is a "novel" experience. In developing interventions to respond to loneliness and isolation, there is a need to respond to the varying types and pathways into loneliness and isolation in later life. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-030707206 A |
| Classmark | DV: TP: K8: F:59: 3F: 3A:6KC |
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