FEELING ALONE TOGETHER: LONELINESS IN OLDER ADULTS WITH COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT AND THEIR CAREGIVERS WITH LOW MASTERY
Pildoo Sung, Jeremy Lim-Soh, Angelique Chan · 2023
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Pildoo Sung, Jeremy Lim-Soh, and Angelique Chan present this 2023 symposium study on whether loneliness passes from older adults with thinking problems to the family members who care for them. Loneliness can spread between people, but not every caregiver of a lonely person grows lonely. The team used paired data from 135 such adults and their caregivers in Singapore.
The older adults reported more loneliness than their caregivers, and the two scores were only weakly linked. Once other traits were held steady, no link stood on its own. But one buffer changed the picture: a caregiver's sense of mastery, the feeling of being in control. Where that sense was low, a lonely care receiver did track with a lonely caregiver. The authors urge programs that ease loneliness on both sides and build caregiver mastery.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Pildoo Sung, Jeremy Lim-Soh, Angelique Chan |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |