Strategies to prevent loneliness

Addressing Loneliness: Coping, Prevention and Clinical Interventions

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 218-230

  De Jong Gierveld, Jenny ^a,b   Fokkema, Tineke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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