... social environment have been operationalised for empirical examination. Social network models have previously identified structural and functional domains of the immediate social environment [ 10, 11 ]. As Vernooij-Dassen et al. [ 9 ] outline, structure refers to the social ties between individuals...

... of Daily Living (IADL) scale and the well-established Barthel Index (ADL) were used to quantify functional status. The psychometrically sound Lubben Social Network Scale was used to measure social support. Several potential confounders such as age, marital status, cognitive decline, or depressive symptoms...

...Mengting Li; Xinqi Dong Background: Social network has been identified as a protective factor for cognitive impairment. However, the relationship between social network and global and subdomains of cognitive function remains unclear. Objective: This study aims to provide an analytic framework...

... to in the content or advertisements. Life habits Social network Leisure activity Elderly people Mortality Survival Over the last 50 years, improvements in standards of living (income, nutrition and education) and health care (curative and preventive medicine) have resulted in a significant...

... and with the National Death Index. Psychosocial factors (depression, social network and social engagement) were assessed during the CHAP interview. Cox proportional hazard models were used to assess the mortality of elder abuse across levels of psychosocial factors using time-varying covariate analyses. Results...

... the sociodemographic, health-related and psychosocial characteristics of reported elder self-neglect; (2) to examine the association of social network and social engagement with reported self-neglect. Methods: Population-based study conducted from 1993 to 2005 of community-dwelling subjects (n = 9,056) participating...