Emotional loneliness is associated with mortality among mentally intact nursing home residents with and without cancer: A five-year follow-up study

Journal of Clinical Nursing

Volumn 22, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 106-114

  Drageset, Jorunn ^a   Eide, Geir E ^b   Kirkevold, Marit ^c,d   Ranhoff, Anette H ^b,e  

^a BERGEN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^e STATOIL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Depression symptoms; Emotional and social loneliness; Mortality; Nursing home; Older people

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; LONELINESS; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; NURSING HOME; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; LONELINESS; MALE; MENTAL COMPETENCY; MORTALITY; NEOPLASMS; NURSING HOMES;

EID: 84870845178     PISSN: 09621067     EISSN: 13652702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2012.04209.x     Document Type: Article

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