%0 Journal Article
%T The Long Loneliness of Primary Care
%A Timothy P. Daaleman
%J Archive of "Annals of Family Medicine".
%D 2018
%R 10.1370/afm.2301
%X In recent years there has been heightened interest in the linkages between loneliness, social isolation, and health. A highly cited meta-analysis determined that social isolation, loneliness, and living alone increased the risk of premature death by an order of magnitude that was comparable to the well-recognized risk factors of smoking and obesity.1 In addition, a data analysis from the Health and Retirement Study reported that loneliness was significantly associated with increased physician visits, but not hospitalizations, in community-dwelling older adults.
%K loneliness
%K social isolation
%K primary care
%K patient-physician relationship
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6130999/