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Changes in older adult loneliness
— results from a seven-year longitudinal study | | Author(s) | Pearl A Dykstra, Theo G van Tilburg, Jenny de Jong Gierveld |
| Journal title | Research on Aging, vol 27, no 6, November 2005 |
| Pages | pp 725-747 |
| Source | http://www.sagepub.com |
| Keywords | Loneliness ; Health [elderly] ; Social characteristics [elderly] ; Correlation ; Longitudinal surveys ; Netherlands. |
| Annotation | Loneliness and its correlates - health, residential care, partner status and network size - were examined over a 7-year period among Dutch people born between 1908 and 1937. Data are from the Living Arrangements and Social Networks of Older Adults (NESTOR-LSN) and the Longitudinal Aging Study of Amsterdam (LASA). Data from at least two waves are available for 2,925 respondents. Results show that older people generally become lonelier as time passes. The increase is greater for the oldest, those with partners, and those with better functional capacity at baseline. Older people who lose their partner by death show the greatest increase in loneliness. Not all older people become more lonely: improvement in functional capacity and network expansion lead to less loneliness; and entry into residential care does not affect loneliness. Compared to cross-sectional studies, the longitudinal design provides new insights into factors that protect against loneliness. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-051118222 A |
| Classmark | DV: CC: F: 49: 3J: 76H |
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