The impact of social isolation on the health status and health-related quality of life of older people
- 25 July 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Quality of Life Research
- Vol. 20 (1), 57-67
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-010-9717-2
Abstract
To investigate for socially isolated older people, and older people at risk of social isolation: (1) health status and health-related quality of life (HRQL); (2) the relationship between social isolation and health status/HRQL; (3) the relationship between two alternative measures of health status/HRQL.This publication has 23 references indexed in Scilit:
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