Understanding social connectedness of older adults who live alone

Ample evidence underscores the deleterious effects of loneliness on health and mortality. Therefore, it is important that loneliness risks are identified across all ages and appropriate measures are devised to address those risks. Although almost a third of the US older adult population lives alone,...

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Main Author: Prakash, Akanksha
Other Authors: Rogers, Wendy A.
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: Georgia Institute of Technology 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1853/54981