Social relationships, living arrangements and loneliness.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Oldest-old people are expected to be particularly likely to experience loneliness due to the loss of their intimate partner or of same-aged social network members. It is assumed that individuals in different living arrangements maintain different kinds of social networks because they adjust their networks to their specific needs. However, not much is known about the variation in the social networks of the oldest-old depending on their living arrangements and how this variation is related to loneliness. This is the first study that seeks to fill this research gap by examining how the composition and the size of a social network varies among the oldest-old depending on their living arrangements with a partner (coresidential partnership, living apart together (LAT) partners

SUBMITTER: Schmitz W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8551096 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature