The importance of emotional and social isolation to loneliness among very old rural adults

Gerontologist

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1994, Pages 340-346

  Dugan, Elizabeth ^a   Kivett, Vira R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

Author keywords

Hearing; Older adults; Siblings; Widowhood

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONELINESS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RURAL POPULATION; SIBLING; SOCIAL ISOLATION; WIDOW;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEARING DISORDERS; HUMAN; LONELINESS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; NORTH CAROLINA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RURAL POPULATION; SAMPLING STUDIES; SIBLING RELATIONS; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SPACE-TIME CLUSTERING; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0028334330     PISSN: 00169013     EISSN: 17585341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geront/34.3.340     Document Type: Article

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