'Nowadays you don't even see your neighbours': Loneliness in the everyday lives of older Australians

Health and Social Care in the Community

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 407-414

  Stanley, Mandy ^a   Moyle, Wendy ^b   Ballantyne, Alison ^a   Jaworski, Katrina ^a   Corlis, Megan ^c   Oxlade, Deborah ^d   Stoll, Andrew ^e   Young, Beverley ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Helping Hand Aged Care   (Australia)

^d RSL Care   (Australia)

^e Community Services ECH Inc ^*  (Australia)

^f Southern Cross Care (SA) Inc   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aged care services; Loneliness; Older people; Qualitative research; Service and supportproviders

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGE; AGING; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; DEMOGRAPHY; ELDERLY CARE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LONELINESS; MENTAL STRESS; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STATISTICS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGE FACTORS; AGING; AUSTRALIA; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; LONELINESS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 77954598681     PISSN: 09660410     EISSN: 13652524     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2524.2010.00923.x     Document Type: Article

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