SociologyPsychologyMedicine

Predictors and subjective causes of loneliness in an aged population.

N. Savikko, P. Routasalo, R. Tilvis, T. Strandberg, K. Pitkälä

2005.11.1ARCHIVES OF GERONTOLOGY AND GERIATRICS

DOI: 10.1016/j.archger.2005.03.002

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Loneliness was more common among rural elderly people than those living in cities and was associated with advancing age, living alone or in a residential home, widowhood, low level of education and poor income.

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SAVIKKO, N., et al. Predictors and subjective causes of loneliness in an aged population. ARCHIVES OF GERONTOLOGY AND GERIATRICS, 2005, 41 3: 223–33.