Social isolation and loneliness among older people: issues and future challenges in community and residential settings.
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...Many authors agree that it is a uni-dimensional concept referring to the lack of social integration [5-8]....
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...Loneliness is a subjective concept resulting from a perceived absence or loss of companionship [6,13-15]....
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...Expanding the distinction further, while social isolation may be either voluntary or involuntary, loneliness is always involuntary [6,19]....
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...Alternatively Grenade and Boldy [46] categorised interventions by their ‘nature’ and ‘goal’, and Cohen-Mansfield and Perach [53] categorised interventions based on their ‘focus’ and ‘type’....
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...Grenade L, Boldy D. Social isolation and loneliness among older people: issues and future challenges in community and residential settings....
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...In the third review [46], the authors implicitly addressed these three constructs but used different terminology, i....
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...Three reviews categorised interventions by their ‘goal’ [42, 44, 46]....
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...Alternatively Grenade and Boldy [46] categorised interventions by their ‘nature’ and...
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...…2003 ; Putnam, 2000 ; Woolcock, 2001 ) and social networks (Berkman & Syme, 1979 ; Spencer & Pahl, 2006 ), as well as concepts of social isolation (Conor, Luanaigh, & Lawlor, 2008 ; Grenade & Boldy, 2008 ) and social exclusion (Scharf & Bartlam, 2006 , 2008 ; Scharf, Phillipson, & Smith, 2004 )....
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...1985), having a confidant (Grenade and Boldy 2008), and family (Fiori et al....
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...Interaction with strong ties (Lin et al. 1985), having a confidant (Grenade and Boldy 2008), and family (Fiori et al. 2006) were found to be most beneficial....
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...As suggested by Grenade and Boldy (2008), there is a need for strategic thinking in order to provide older people with maximum opportunities to maintain a good quality of life....
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