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ArticleJournal of the American Geriatrics Society2022

A paradigm shift-Loneliness as a root cause of symptom distress among older adults.

Ashwin A Kotwal, Diane E Meier

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Article in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. How Race, Gender, and Cohort Shape Social Isolation and Loneliness in Older Americans.Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Ashwin A KotwalDivision of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6137-8512
Diane E MeierBrookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA.

Funding

Loneliness and Social Isolation Among Older Adults with and without Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementia in the Last Years of LifeK23AG065438 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI KOTWAL, ASHWIN AJIT · 2020 to 2024
$809k
Loneliness and Social Isolation among Older Adults in the Last Years of LIfeR03AG064323 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI KOTWAL, ASHWIN AJIT · 2019 to 2020
$242k
NIA NIH HHS K23 AG065438NIA NIH HHS R03 AG064323
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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LonelinessAgedHumans

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PMID35607720
PMCPMC9378438

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