Discriminators of Loneliness Among the Rural Elderly: Implications for Intervention

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Older rural adults were classified as either high or low risks for loneliness according to a combination of physical and social losses that they had incurred. Frequent loneliness was associated with widowhood, poor vision and self-rated health, problems with transportation, frequent use of the telephone, low participation in organized social activities, and being female. Occasional loneliness was typical of persons for whom health and transportation were not major problems but who had no mate. Intervention is suggested in three overall areas: social activities and relationships, health and vision, and transportation.

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