Isolation and Loneliness in Old Age as Social Policy - An Annotated Bibliography

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ISOLATION AND LONELINESS IN OLD AGE AS SOCIAL
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Gardiner, C., Geldenhuys, G. and Gott, M., 2018. Interventions to reduce social
isolation and loneliness among older people: an integrative review. Health & social care
in the community, 26(2), pp.147-157.
The paper explores that loneliness and isolations are crucial problems seen in older
people. Several interventions, as well as activities, have been addressed to limit the issues of
social isolation and loneliness in aged population. However, the objective of the study was to
carry out a systematic review of literature for recognising different dimensions of
intervention that aim to address social isolation and loneliness amongst aged people
(Gardiner et al. 2018).
Loneliness and isolation are crucial issues for the aged populations that are related to
dangerous cognitive as well as physical h issues. A current review found a broad areas of
health issues related to loneliness and social isolation such as depressive activities,
cardiovascular problems, poor standard of life and issues in cognitive functioning.
Chronically aged people are reporting reduced excessing activities, increased use of tobacco
and increased chronic illness provided with increased depressing scores. Studies reported that
analysis of intervention represented that most of the actions are not helpful in reducing social
isolation and loneliness.
Approaches in measuring social isolation found that the issues are associated with
levels of social relation and lack of social participation. The review, however, found that
solitary pet interventions involved with the use of technology like video conference and
computer use were helpful in reducing the feeling of isolation and loneliness amongst older
people.
Search results in this study show that most of the intervention used in reducing
isolations and loneliness were complicated and relied on the mechanisms of more than just a

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single, method. For instance, mindfulness of stress reductions was found to be potentially
helping in decreasing loneliness. Han et al. (2017) argued that since the interventions as
offered in a team setting it was not appropriate to seek the unique delivery of the mindfulness
in opposition to team interactions.
Franck, L., Molyneux, N. and Parkinson, L., 2016. A systematic review of interventions
addressing social isolation and depression in aged care clients. Quality of Life
Research, 25(6), pp.1395-1407.
The paper explores a systematic review of studies showing the solutions for limiting
the impact of social isolation and depressive activities in aged people specifically those who
are under care services in a residential care home. Findings from the study showed that only
one type of interventions, that is group based on reminiscences therapy was seen to behave
successful effect in lowering the impact both social isolation and depressive feeling within
aged people. Based on this method, one of the advantageous activities seemed to be obtained
from the programs that were associated with well-developed employees who fostered team-
based social activities for expanding social communication amongst old people
In this context, the study here reported that there is a powerful connection within
social isolation and depression. Social isolations is a self-sufficient element of risk related to
depressive signs, the effect of both these factors are difficult to separate. The little research in
this study reported that there international differences in persistence of social isolation
amongst aged people. Wherton et al. (2015) reported that European prevalence shows that the
range of social isolation in aged people varies from 5-9% in Germany and 20% in Portugal,
35% in Greece.
The prevalence estimation in the UK and Australia are more or less similar to 7-17%
of the aged population are facing issues due to social isolation. Studies in this context