Loneliness and depression among elderly nursing home patients.
A study of residents of a nursing facility showed that social relationships formed with other residents was a much stronger predictor of depression and loneliness than social relationships with friends and relatives from outside the institution.
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Center for the Study of Suicide, Blackwood, New Jersey 08012, USA.
Lester
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D000368:Aged / Q000523:psychology*; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003863:Depression; D005195:Family Relations; D005260:Female; D006707:Homes for the Aged; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008132:Loneliness; D008297:Male; D009735:Nursing Homes