Being alone in later life: Loneliness, social isolation and living alone

Reviews in Clinical Gerontology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 407-417

  Victor, Christina ^a,d   Scambler, Sasha ^a   Bond, John ^b   Bowling, Ann ^c  

^a ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; LONELINESS; PREVALENCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL ISOLATION;

EID: 0034453868     PISSN: 09592598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0959259800104101     Document Type: Review

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