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Social Isolation and Loneliness in Older Adults: Review and Commentary of a National Academies Report
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Highlights This article provides a comprehensive review of the recent National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine consensus committee report on Social Isolation and Loneliness (SI/L). The relevance specifically for mental health providers is emphasized.• What is the primary question addressed by this study?What are the physical and mental health consequences of SI/L? What are the current evidence-based interventions for SI/L which can be implemented by mental health professionals?• SI/L are significant public health problems and are clear risks for death, depression, anxiety, and cognitive disorders such as major cognitive impairment (dementia). The evidence based interventions by mental health professionals for SI/L are limited yet some have emerged which are promising.• Health and mental healthcare professionals may be the first to identify socially isolated and lonely older adults as these older adults are at significant increased risk for serious adverse outcomes. For this reason, these professionals should know how to screen for and to initiate interventions that can be helpful.
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“Indeed, topics such as ageism, elder maltreatment, loneliness, attitudes toward older adults, and social participation appear to be relatively less represented in the identified literature despite their well-established importance in international research [106,107,108,109].”
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- Authors
- Donovan, N. J., & Blazer, D.
- Affiliations
- Brigham and Women's Hospital (US)
- Duke University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Blazer, Dan
- Venue
- The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2020-12
- Volume
- 28
- Issue
- 12
- Pages
- 1233-1244
- ISSN
- 1064-7481 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC7437541
- OpenAlex
- W3049583205
- Semantic Scholar
- d4432d78e1b8ba5d98d050e0dd231db50ba6bc4f
- Cited by
- 739
- References
- 96
- Citations by year
- 2026: 181 · 2025: 173 · 2024: 168 · 2023: 98 · 2022: 72 · 2021: 43 · 2020: 3
- FWCI
- 8.47
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Health › Health disparities and outcomes
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Aging, Health, and Disability
- Keywords
- social isolation, loneliness, older adults, social distancing, COVID-19 pandemic, interpersonal relationships, National Academies report
- MeSH terms
- COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, Aged, Humans, Loneliness, Social Isolation, Pandemics
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