ArticleBMC geriatrics2025
Relationships of social isolation and loneliness with healthy aging among older adults.
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- Incremental Information from Repeated Loneliness Assessments in Middle-Aged and Older Adults.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Validation of the Spanish version of the social and emotional loneliness scale for adults - short form (SELSA-S) in older adults.BMC research notes · 2026Article
- Loneliness in older women: a multidimensional population-based study of social, health, and life-course factors.Frontiers in aging · 2026Article
- Determinants of social health in later life: the roles of family integration, social participation, and psychosocial well-being.Frontiers in sociology · 2026Article
- Breaking the invisible cage: social isolation and coping strategies among patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundSocial isolation and loneliness have been recognized as important psychosocial factors affecting human health. We aimed to examine the relationships of social isolation and loneliness with the likelihood of healthy aging among older women and men.
methodsThe prospective study included 13,782 female and 11,838 male participants who were aged 64 years or older and had no major chronic diseases during recruitment of the UK Biobank (2006-2010). All participants were eligible to survive to age 80 before the latest follow-up (December 2021). Healthy aging was defined as survival to age 80 without major chronic diseases. Multivariable logistic regression models were used to evaluate the associations of social isolation, loneliness and their combination with the likelihood of healthy aging.
resultsA total of 9130 women (58.77%) and 6406 men (41.23%) achieved healthy aging. After adjusting for age and race/ethnicity, social isolation was associated with a significantly 20% and 14% lower likelihood of healthy aging among women and men, respectively, whereas among both sexes the associations for loneliness were similar but statistically non-significant. Among women, the association between loneliness and healthy aging varied by social isolation status (P
conclusionsA coexistence of social isolation and loneliness was associated with a substantially lower likelihood of healthy aging among women. Our findings highlight the importance of social support in extending women's healthspan beyond the management of traditional risk factors.
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