Situational versus chronic loneliness as risk factors for all-cause mortality

International Psychogeriatrics

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 455-462

  Shiovitz Ezra, Sharon ^a   Ayalon, Liat ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Chronic loneliness; HRS; Mortality; Situational loneliness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHRONIC LONELINESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LONELINESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MORTALITY; OUTCOME VARIABLE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RATING SCALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SITUATIONAL LONELINESS; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; ISRAEL; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LONELINESS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL ISOLATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77952344837     PISSN: 10416102     EISSN: 1741203X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1041610209991426     Document Type: Article

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