Social Participation, Loneliness and Depression
(2016)
Book Chapter
Burroughs, H., & Wilkie, R. (2016). Social Participation, Loneliness and Depression. In Mental Health and Older People (57-65). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29492-6_6
Retirement from paid employment and other changes in role can, for some older people, lead to a decline in social participation. A lack of social participation can cause loneliness, but the two states are not synonymous. Loneliness is emotional distr... Read More about Social Participation, Loneliness and Depression.