Conditions for Feasibility of a Multicomponent Intervention to Reduce Social Isolation and Loneliness in Noninstitutionalized Older Adults.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

To identify the factors conditioning the feasibility of an intervention to reduce social isolation and loneliness in noninstitutionalized older adults from the perspective of the intervention agents.

Design

A Dimensional Grounded Theory study conducted from December 2019 to January 2020.

Methods

Twelve participants were recruited from an experimental study developed in a health district of a southern Spanish city. Data were collected through focus group meetings, individual interviews, biograms, anecdote notebooks, and the field diaries of two participants not included in the other techniques. Transcripts were analyzed using thematic analysis.

Findings

Findings were divided into three themes: (a) the elderly between the walls of loneliness, economic diffic

SUBMITTER: Hernandez-Ascanio J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9223082 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature