Rationale Increasingly, loneliness is being recognised as a serious problem with detrimental
effects on health, as well as on social cohesion and community trust. To effectively tackle this …

The increasing number of people with dementia globally illustrates the urgent need to
reduce dementia's scale and impact. Lifetime social participation may affect dementia risk by …

People exposed to more unfavourable social circumstances are more vulnerable to poor
mental health over their life course, in ways that are often determined by structural factors …

People feel lonely when their social needs are not met by the quantity and quality of their
social relationships. Most research has focused on individual-level predictors of loneliness …

Concerns have been raised about the loneliness and well-being of children and
adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic. The extent to which the ongoing pandemic has …

Loneliness is an experience resulting from a perceived discrepancy between expected and
actual social relationships. Although this discrepancy is widely considered the “core …

Background Social isolation and loneliness pose significant public health challenges
globally. The objective of this study is to investigate the association between social isolation …

The state of loneliness and social isolation research: current knowledge and future directions |
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Both frailty (reduced physiological reserve) and social vulnerability (scarcity of adequate
social connections, support, or interaction) become more common as people age and are …

Loneliness—the subjective experience of social disconnection—is now widely regarded as
a health risk factor. However, whether the associations between loneliness and multiple …