Social Isolation, Loneliness, and Health Behaviors at Older Ages: Longitudinal Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The prospective associations between social isolation, loneliness, and health behaviors are uncertain, despite the potential importance of these relationships over time for outcomes including mortality.

Purpose

To examine the associations between baseline social isolation, baseline loneliness, and engagement in health behaviors over 10 years among older adults.

Methods

Data were from 3,392 men and women aged ≥52 years in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing from 2004/2005 to 2014/2015. Modified Poisson regression was specified to estimate relative risks (RRs) and 95% confidence intervals for the associations between baseline social isolation, baseline loneliness, and consistent weekly moderate-to-vigorous physical activity, consistent five daily fruit a

SUBMITTER: Kobayashi LC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6377432 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature