Lifestyle-related factors in loneliness and social isolation of older persons

Loneliness and social isolation are increasingly common in old age and have been related to lifestyle behaviors. However, the specific roles of modifiable lifestyles in objective and subjective social isolation are unclear. This chapter examines the effects of lifestyle-related factors on loneliness and social isolation in old age based on evidence from a Ghanaian study. We applied adjusted Ordinary Least Squares models, drawing on data from …