老年人的孤独和社会隔离
Jafar Ohiokpehai1, Julie K Gammack2, Mehwish Siddiqui3
1Geriatric Medicine Fellow, Division of Geriatric Medicine is at the SSM Health/Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri.
Missouri medicine
|April 28, 2025
概括
孤独是一种对未得到满足的社会需求的主观感觉,而社会隔离是一种客观的缺乏社会接触. 这些不同的疾病往往并存,特别是在老年人中,并可能导致不良的健康结果.
科学领域:
- 老年学是一门学科.
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 心理学 心理学 心理学
背景情况:
- 孤独是一种对未得到满足的社会需求的主观感知,与社会孤立不同,这是客观缺乏社会接触的情况.
- 虽然孤独和社会隔离往往可以互换使用,但它们是具有重叠特征,风险因素和后果的独特条件.
- COVID-19大流行突出并加剧了社会隔离和孤独的有害影响,特别是在老年人群中.
研究的目的:
- 要区分孤独和社会隔离.
- 探索这些疾病的同时发生和影响,特别是在老年人中.
- 强调理解和减轻社会隔离和孤独的重要性.
主要方法:
- 该研究将孤独定义为主观的体验,而社会隔离定义为客观的状态.
- 它引用了COVID-19大流行期间对老年人的研究来说明这些条件的共同发生.
- 摘要讨论了孤独作为老年综合征的潜在分类.
主要成果:
- 孤独和社会隔离是不同的,但往往是共存的条件.
- 在COVID-19大流行期间对老年人的研究中,三分之一的人经历了孤独和社会隔离.
- 94%的社会隔离者也表示自己感到孤独.
结论:
- 孤独和社会隔离虽然不同,但经常一起发生,并对健康产生重大影响.
- 孤独并没有被归类为精神健康障碍,但可以被认为是老年综合征.
- 需要进一步的研究来了解身体和心理的影响,并制定缓解社会隔离和孤独的缓解策略.
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