NCT01842984

Decreasing Loneliness in Older Adults

Increasing Social Competence and Social Integration of Older Adults Experiencing Loneliness

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 74 (actual)
• Sponsor: Tel Aviv University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purposes of this study are: (1) decrease loneliness and social isolation and increase social competence and social integration of older adults experiencing loneliness; (2) examine an intervention process grounded in a theoretical model that was developed in a previous study. The intervention process is tailored to the participants' barriers and abilities, and includes up to 10 personal meetings with an activities counselor and several group meetings.

Conditions

• Loneliness
• Social Isolation

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	I-SOCIAL intervention	The I-SOCIAL intervention is based on findings from Cohen-Mansfield and Parpura-Gill (2007), which highlighted the important role of barriers in contributing to loneliness in older persons. These barriers include a perceived lack of opportunities for social contacts, low social self-efficacy, and health and mobility difficulties. The intervention includes: (1) identifying the barriers for the specific person; (2) up to 10 meetings with an activities counselor. The meetings include discussions concerning options for social contacts and use of techniques and resources to tackle the barriers; and (3) group meetings of participants and the activities counselors in order to provide a concrete social event and as a venue to discuss barriers and ways to address them.

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-03-01
• Primary completion: 2016-12-01
• Completion: 2018-12-01
• First posted: 2013-04-30
• Last updated: 2019-10-31

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Israel