Social Isolation, Social Support, and Loneliness Profiles Before and After Spousal Death and the Buffering Role of Financial Resources.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

We provide new evidence on the profiles of social isolation, social support, and loneliness before and after spousal death for older widows. We also examine the moderating effects of gender and financial resources on changes in social health before and after widowhood.

Methods

We use 19 waves of data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey, including 749 widowed individuals and a comparison group of around 8,000 married individuals. We apply coarsened exact matching weights and control for age and time trends. Local polynomial smoothed plots show the profiles of social health from 3 years pre- to 3 years postspousal death. All analyses were stratified by gender.

Results

Spousal death was strongly associated with increased loneline

SUBMITTER: Freak-Poli R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9071412 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature