Loneliness in old age: Longitudinal changes and their determinants in an Israeli sample

International Psychogeriatrics

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1160-1170

  Cohen Mansfield, Jiska ^a,b   Shmotkin, Dov ^a   Goldberg, Shira ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Gender; Marital status; Social networks; Wellbeing

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMORBIDITY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; ISRAEL; LONELINESS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MENTAL HEALTH; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; SENESCENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; WELLBEING;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; COGNITION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LONELINESS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MARITAL STATUS; QUALITY OF LIFE; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 75149143358     PISSN: 10416102     EISSN: 1741203X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1041610209990974     Document Type: Article

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