Social Networks in Later Life

Social Participation, Social Environment and Death Ideations in Later Life

OBJECTIVE Few studies on elders' suicide and depression have integrated social and community factors in their explicative models. Most of the studied variables used are focused on individual and based on psychopathological models. The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of socio-environmental factors on death ideations, using data from the European SHARE cohort. METHOD Social s...

Later life civic engagement of elderly in Ahwaz -Iran

Background and Purpose: The problematic reduction of civic engagement in local communities of Khuzestan province in the southwest of Iran has became a serious issue for research in social planning and policy making. Efforts have been made to study the risk factors as the deterrents to engaging in the society. Methods: this study aims to investigate the factors influencing civic engagement amon...

Natal social environment influences habitat selection later in life

Quality of Marriage and Social Loneliness in Later Life

Loneliness is the subjective, unpleasant experience of a perceived discrepancy between the quantity and quality of existing relationships (e.g., with spouse, children, friends) and the relationships one wishes (De Jong Gierveld, Van Tilburg, & Dykstra, 2006; Perlman & Peplau, 1981). Loneliness has to be differentiated from social isolation that concerns the objective characteristics of a situat...

Building Social Life Networks

The availability of enormous volumes of heterogeneous Cyber-Physical-Social (CPS) data streams allow design and implementation of networks to connect people with essential life resources. We call these networks Social Life Networks (SLNs). We are developing concepts, technology, and infrastructure to design and build these networks. SLNs will be helpful in addressing several essential societal ...