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Social isolation, loneliness, and all-cause mortality in older men and women
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Both social isolation and loneliness are associated with increased mortality, but it is uncertain whether their effects are independent or whether loneliness represents the emotional pathway through which social isolation impairs health. We therefore assessed the extent to which the association between social isolation and mortality is mediated by loneliness. We assessed social isolation in terms of contact with family and friends and participation in civic organizations in 6,500 men and women aged 52 and older who took part in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing in 2004–2005. A standard questionnaire measure of loneliness was administered also. We monitored all-cause mortality up to March 2012 (mean follow-up 7.25 y) and analyzed results using Cox proportional hazards regression. We found that mortality was higher among more socially isolated and more lonely participants. However, after adjusting statistically for demographic factors and baseline health, social isolation remained significantly associated with mortality (hazard ratio 1.26, 95% confidence interval, 1.08–1.48 for the top quintile of isolation), but loneliness did not (hazard ratio 0.92, 95% confidence interval, 0.78–1.09). The association of social isolation with mortality was unchanged when loneliness was included in the model. Both social isolation and loneliness were associated with increased mortality. However, the effect of loneliness was not independent of demographic characteristics or health problems and did not contribute to the risk associated with social isolation. Although both isolation and loneliness impair quality of life and well-being, efforts to reduce isolation are likely to be more relevant to mortality.
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“Adjustment for demographic factors including marital status reduced the strength of this association by around 36% (model 2), with a further reduction of 12% when baseline health status and depression were taken into account (model 3).”
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“Cox proportional hazard analyses showed that, after adjustment for age and sex, the hazards ratio (HR) for mortality was 1.50 [95% confidence interval (CI), 1.30-1.73,P < 0.001] in the high social isolation group (Table 2).”
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“However, after adjusting statistically for demographic factors and baseline health, social isolation remained significantly associated with mortality (hazard ratio 1.26, 95% confidence interval, 1.08-1.48for the top quintile of isolation), but loneliness did not (hazard ratio 0.92, 95% confidence interval, 0.78-1.09).”
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“The association was attenuated further after baseline health and mobility were included in the model (HR 0.92, 95% CI, 0.78-1.09,P = 0.34), suggesting that social disadvantage and concurrent health problems largely account for the relationship between loneliness and mortality.”
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“The age-and sex-adjusted HR for loneliness was significant (1.26, 95% CI, 1.08-1.46,P = 0.003) but was reduced to nonsignificance when demographic factors were included (model 2, Table 3).”
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“Both social isolation and loneliness were associated with all-cause mortality; the absolute proportions of deaths were 21.9 vs. 12.3% in the high and low/ average isolation groups and 19.2 vs. 13.0% in the high and low/ average loneliness groups, respectively.”
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“The age-and sex-adjusted HR for loneliness was significant (1.26, 95% CI, 1.08-1.46,P = 0.003) but was reduced to nonsignificance when demographic factors were included (model 2, Table 3).”
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“We tested sex differences in these patterns by adding the two-way social isolation by sex interaction (HR 0.85, 95% C.I. 0.64-1.14,P = 0.27), but the effect was not significant.”
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“The association of social isolation with mortality was unchanged when loneliness was included in the model.”
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“Adding loneliness to the model did not reduce the HR for social isolation, and there was no interaction between social isolation and loneliness.”
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“However, after adjusting statistically for demographic factors and baseline health, social isolation remained significantly associated with mortality (hazard ratio 1.26, 95% confidence interval, 1.08-1.48for the top quintile of isolation), but loneliness did not (hazard ratio 0.92, 95% confidence interval, 0.78-1.09).”
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“Nevertheless, the HR remained highly significant (1.26, 95% CI, 1.07-1.48,P = 0.005).”
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“The age-and sex-adjusted HR for loneliness was significant (1.26, 95% CI, 1.08-1.46,P = 0.003) but was reduced to nonsignificance when demographic factors were included (model 2, Table 3).”
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“Adjustment for demographic factors including marital status reduced the strength of this association by around 36% (model 2), with a further reduction of 12% when baseline health status and depression were taken into account (model 3).”
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“There were no sex differences in social isolation, but isolated individuals were more likely to be older and unmarried with limited education and lower wealth.”
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“Loneliness was more common in women and was associated with older age, less education, and lower wealth and marital status in the same way as social isolation.”
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“It was associated with a greater range of health conditions than social isolation, including coronary heart disease (CHD), stroke, and clinical depression, although the prevalence of these conditions was low.”
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“Social isolation and loneliness were positively correlated (ρ = 0.10, P < 0.001).”
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“Social isolation also was associated with limiting longstanding illnesses such as chronic lung disease, arthritis, impaired mobility, and depressive symptoms.”
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“In the HRS, loneliness predicted all-cause mortality over a 6-y period independently of demographic factors and health behaviors, but associations no longer were significant after baseline health, functional limitations, and depressive symptoms were taken into account (26).”
§ Social isolation, loneliness, and all-cause mortality in older men and women > Discussion
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“Because depression is a risk factor for mortality from common serious illness (37)(38)(39) and also is associated with social isolation and loneliness, it was included as an additional covariate.”
§ Social isolation, loneliness, and all-cause mortality in older men and women > Measures of Social Isolation and Loneliness.
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“All-cause mortality up to March 2012 was supplied by the National Health Service central data registry for all participants who consented to mortality follow-up (96.5%).”
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“We measured loneliness with the three-item short form of the Revised UCLA loneliness scale (29).”
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“The item on loneliness was omitted from the CES-D to avoid direct overlap with the loneliness scale (41); however, the same results emerged when this item was included.”
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“This result indicates that the mortality risk of social isolation is caused partly by social disadvantage or poor health, but much of the association remains unexplained.”
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“We gave equal weight to different aspects of social contact in these analyses, but some social relationships may be more important to future health than others.”
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“We also were able to construct a comprehensive social isolation index that included contacts with friends, relatives, and family as well as civic participation.”
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“The strengths of this analysis include the use of a large representative population cohort in which it was possible to control for multiple health and demographic indicators.”
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“The response rate in wave 2 was 81.5% of eligible participants.”
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“This may be reflected in the cross-sectional association between the constructs at age 18 (r = 0.38), which is comparable but somewhat stronger than that observed in studies using structural indicators of social isolation in adulthood (e.g., r ≈ 0.18-0.30;Preacher et al., 2005;Coyle & Dugan, 2012;Steptoe et al., 2013).”
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“the industrial revolution and modern era have ushered in changes in social interactions and sleep quality59,91 that can promote SCI149,150 and insulin resistance151, in turn increasing risk for obesity, type 2 diabetes, CVD and all-cause mortality150–154”
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“That the two concept are distinct is supported by several studies that show that they are only weakly correlated with each other [18–21].”
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“However, no significant interaction between social isolation and loneliness on mortality was found in other studies [20,48].”
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“To allow a sufficient sample size in each of the four groups, individuals with scores 2 or more were classified as socially isolated and those with 0 or 1 as not socially isolated, similar to previous research [20,27,54].”
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“Among the few studies that contrasted social isolation and loneliness the evidence was mixed, with one study finding that loneliness was more influential (Holwerda et al., 2012) and another finding that social isolation (Steptoe, Shankar, Demakakos, & Wardle, 2013) has stronger effects than loneliness.”
From Loneliness and Social Isolation as Risk Factors for Mortality: A Meta-Analytic Review (2015) · cites this paper as Steptoe, Shankar, Demakakos, & Wardle, 2013
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“Social isolation has been identified as a risk factor for poor health, reduced well-being, mortality (e.g.Patterson andVeenstra 2010, Steptoe et al. 2013), depression (Heikkinen and Kauppinen 2004) and cognitive decline (Wilson et al. 2007).”
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“Steptoe et al. (2013) reached the opposite conclusion using UK data, as the effects of loneliness in their study on mortality were not independent of the demographic characteristics and health status of the respondents, contrary to the effects of social isolation.”
From Social isolation, loneliness and health in old age: a scoping review (2017) · cites this paper as Steptoe et al. 2013
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“Nonetheless, evidence suggests the actual presence of others-including the existence of relationships and roles, proximity, and regular contact--is a powerful, in some cases stronger predictor of health than other aspects of relationships [2,10].”
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“but also consistent with those obtained in previous research across diverse samples such as laboratory animals (14-16) and clinical populations (5) and study designs such as experiments (14-16) and mortality follow-ups (6-8).”
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“beyond cross-sectional associations, loneliness has been shown to prospectively predict increased depressive symptomatology, impaired cognitive performance, dementia progression, significant likelihood of nursing home admission, and multiple disease outcomes (e.g., hypertension, heart disease, and stroke in older persons) [22].”
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“As summarized by Cacioppo et al. [22], significant aspects of adult morbidity predicted by loneliness include depressive symptomatology, physical health, and functional limitations.”
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“At older ages, loneliness is also a major risk factor for broad-based morbidity (both psychological and physical).”
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“independent of objective features of social relationships (e.g., living arrangement, number and frequency of contacts, presence and propinquity of caregivers), loneliness has been associated with impaired daytime functioning, reduced physical activity, lower subjective well-being, and poorer physical health.”
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“Indeed, growing evidence indicates that loneliness is associated with a wide range of health outcomes in later life, even after adjusting for objective indices of social isolation.”
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“candidate neurobiological mechanisms include age-related changes in neuroendocrine, cardiovascular, and inflammatory stress responses; elevated vascular resistance, blood pressure, and hypothalamic pituitary adrenocortical activity; leukocyte glucocorticoid resistance reflecting aberrant ratios of circulating white blood cells, and lower inflammatory control and diminished immunity.”
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“a growing body of neuroimaging studies suggests that individual differences in loneliness are reflected in brain regions associated with basic perception and processing of social information [22].”
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“Lower social integration (assessed by network size/participation, living arrangements, and frequency of close social contact) is predictive of elevated mortality6–9”
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“Loneliness is associated with worse physical and mental health [5–8] and increases mortality risk [9,10].”
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“Findings on gender differences have also been mixed, with some studies reporting higher loneliness in females [23] and others finding no effect of gender [7,8,10].”
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“Outside of the current crisis, findings on gender differences in loneliness are mixed, and findings of this study conform with those showing no association [7,8,48].”
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“These are strong risk factors for ill health and impose a high risk on the health of older populations that could be easily avoided with low-cost interventions (Steptoe et al., 2012).”
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“Social capital is similarly important in increasing the risks of social isolation, loneliness and exclusion of older populations, which lead to higher risks of mortality (Holt-Lunstad et al., 2012;Melzer et al., 2012;Steptoe et al., 2012).”
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“The measure is similar to Steptoe et al. (2012) and also reflects changes in social isolation and loneliness.”
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“Reverse-causal pathways have also been established in the literature, with physical disability and poor mental health causing more isolation (Steptoe et al., 2012).”
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“Loneliness and social isolation have both been found to be associated with increased mortality risk, whilst controlling for baseline mental and physical health (Steptoe et al., 2012).”
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“having poor social relationships has been associated with a range of negative health outcomes (Holt-Lunstad & Smith, 2012;Scharf, Phillipson, & Smith, 2004;Steptoe, Shankar, Demakakos, & Wardle, 2013;Tomaszewski, 2013;Umberson & Montez, 2010).”
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“Having a range of good social connections has been identified as an important aspect of successful ageing [12] and is associated with lower mortality rates [13, 14], better health outcomes [15, 16], and higher reported wellbeing [17, 18] and quality of life [19, 20].”
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- Steptoe, A., Shankar, A., Demakakos, P., & Wardle, J.
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- Locations
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Government of the United Kingdom
- Cancer Research UK (14134)
- British Heart Foundation
- University College London
- Economic and Social Research Council (ES/K003178/1)
- National Institute on Aging (2R01AG7644, 2R01AG7644-01A1, R01AG017644)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Health › Health disparities and outcomes
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Aging, Health, and Disability
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
- Keywords
- social isolation, loneliness, all-cause mortality, older adults, mediation, family and friend contact, citizen participation, English Longitudinal Study of Ageing
- MeSH terms
- Aged, Aging, Emotions, Female, Health Status, Humans, Loneliness, Longitudinal Studies, Male, Middle Aged, Mortality, Quality of Life, Surveys and Questionnaires, Regression Analysis, Risk Factors, Social Behavior, Social Isolation, Proportional Hazards Models
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
A language model drew the claims from the paper on 2026-10-05, under version 3 of the claim definition (model deepseek-v4.1-flash, prompt extract-v3).
A second model labelled each claim on 2026-10-05 (model jev-1.13-20260917, definition revision gold-guideline-v0.2).
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
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