Social Isolation and Loneliness among Near-Centenarians and Centenarians: Results from the Fordham Centenarian Study.

ABSTRACT: Social isolation and loneliness have been recognized as problems older people face due to their adverse effects on health and mortality, but very few researchers have analyzed their co-occurrence, which might be particularly prevalent and critical among the very old. In this study, we investigated the prevalence of combinations of social isolation and loneliness among near-centenarians and centenarians. We used data collected from 94 individuals aged 95-107 from the Fordham Centenarian Study. We built a four-group typology and explored associations with individual characteristics in various domains (demographic, socioeconomics, social, health, care, and psychological) with multinomial logistic regression models. Considering their combinations, the most prevalent groups were "isolated and l

SUBMITTER: Zaccaria D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9141482 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature