Loneliness in Older Adults

Effects, Prevention, and Treatment

Luis Miguel Rondon Garcia

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN:
  9780323916592
• eBook ISBN:
  9780323986144
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Cognitive Neuroscience & Neuropsychology
• Index: Psychology

Loneliness in Older Adults: Effects, Prevention, and Treatment analyzes loneliness as a complex phenomenon, taking into account the most recent contributions from neuroscience, psychology, medicine and sociology. This volume describes this phenomenon from an interdisciplinary point of view, with special emphasis on older people from a plural and heterogeneous perspective: older people in general, older immigrants, older women, older LGTBI, etc. Faced with the impact of this emerging issue, this book provides a comprehensive knowledge of loneliness, contributing scientific knowledge to the practice of evidence. Tools are also provided for professionals, providing intervention protocols with debates and proposals, and effective digital resources to combat it. Tables, images, and tools guide students, academics, and professionals step-by-step in solving the cases raised, through an integrated practice. There is no work that develops this theme from such a plural and pragmatic perspective, covering all the dimensions of loneliness in each of the thematic axes: psychological, neurological, social, and health. Readers are provided feedback for all the knowledge for a comprehensive scientific knowledge based on evidence and given the necessary instrumental skills related to being social and the functioning of our brain. This book is aimed at a very plural audience of researchers, academics and professionals in the social and behavioral sciences including psychologists, sociologists, social workers, anthropologists, and also professionals in the health sciences, among others. - Delivers a tutorial introduction that addresses real cases - Applies theory to practice from an interdisciplinary perspective - Provides tools (chapter introductions, measurement tools, and teaching resources) for a comprehensive approach to individual situations - Compares intervention protocols to allow users to select the most effective technique

Table of contents

• Title of Book
• Cover image
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 Loneliness in aging: concept, typology and characteristics
• Chapter 2 Explanatory models of the cognitive approach to loneliness
• Chapter 3 Neuroscience: in the direction of building interactive bridges against loneliness
• Chapter 4 The paradigm of active aging in the prevention of loneliness
• Chapter 5 The impact of social relations as preventive mechanisms in loneliness and quality of life of the elderly
• Chapter 6 Loneliness from a plural point of view: immigrants, women, dependents, LGTBI
• Chapter 7 Design of intervention in programs, accompaniment actions, and prevention of loneliness in the elderly
• Chapter 8 Measurement tools and resources for loneliness prevention
• References
• Index