Two samples of patients aged over 70 years were selected, one sample from a large urban general practice and one from a randomized rural general practice. Patients were interviewed in order to assess their mental, physical and social well-being. Included in the interview were questions on subjective feelings of loneliness.More patients in the urban practice than in the rural practice reported f...

Objective The growing pandemic of loneliness has great relevance to aging populations, though assessments are limited by self-report approaches. This paper explores the use artificial intelligence (AI) technology evaluate interviews on loneliness, notably, employing natural language processing (NLP) quantify sentiment and features that indicate in transcribed speech text older adults. Design Pa...

People are motivated to maintain social connection with others, and those who lack social connection with other humans may try to compensate by creating a sense of human connection with nonhuman agents. This may occur in at least two ways-by anthropomorphizing nonhuman agents such as nonhuman animals and gadgets to make them appear more humanlike and by increasing belief in commonly anthropomor...

Studies have shown that people who require single room isolation while in hospital often feel lonely, sad, worried, bored and in need of information. A literature review identified only 16 papers reporting on the child's experience of isolation. Findings indicate that children feel lonely, are scared of the personal protective equipment and feel bored. Patients' parents feel guilty, worried and...

Abstract Loneliness is an established risk factor for impaired health. However, the evidence of whether increased alcohol consumption a coping mechanism to alleviate loneliness both genders remains sparse. The cross-sectional study included 8898 men and 8910 women (mean age 56.2 ± 11.5 years) from three population-based cohort studies in Germany (KORA-FF4, GHS, SHIP. Daily (g/day) was measured,...

Older first‐generation migrants living in Europe, particularly Turkish migrants, feel relatively lonely, which indicates social exclusion. Social embeddedness within the family, parent‐child relationships, can alleviate loneliness for older but such relationships also be ambivalent, may not prevent altogether. Earlier research that Germany report high quality with their children and levels of s...

This research is an analysis of a poem written by Willliam Wordswort. The writer analyses the Wordswort's titled I Wandered Lonely As Cloud (Daffodils) to reveal denotation and connoation as symbolic meaning. To analyze it uses qualitative-descriptive method data. also Roland Barthes theory meaning on Wordsworth's poem. Reasearch finding this tha Daffodils mostly naturalistic symbol so that con...