Rationale Increasingly, loneliness is being recognised as a serious problem with detrimental
effects on health, as well as on social cohesion and community trust. To effectively tackle this�…

People feel lonely when their social needs are not met by the quantity and quality of their
social relationships. Most research has focused on individual-level predictors of loneliness�…

People exposed to more unfavourable social circumstances are more vulnerable to poor
mental health over their life course, in ways that are often determined by structural factors�…

Concerns have been raised about the loneliness and well-being of children and
adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic. The extent to which the ongoing pandemic has�…

The increasing number of people with dementia globally illustrates the urgent need to
reduce dementia's scale and impact. Lifetime social participation may affect dementia risk by�…

Loneliness is an experience resulting from a perceived discrepancy between expected and
actual social relationships. Although this discrepancy is widely considered the “core�…

The state of loneliness and social isolation research: current knowledge and future
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Objectives Older adults may be at increased risk of loneliness. Frailty is also common in
older adults, however, associations between loneliness and frailty have been understudied�…

Background The highly prevalent late-life loneliness, together with its deleterious health
impacts, calls for increasing attention to the need for effective interventions targeting on this�…

Background Pandemic-induced social distancing and stay-at-home orders, while successful
in decreasing the transmission of COVID-19, could exacerbate loneliness. Few studies have�…