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Loneliness in Older Adults
Effects, Prevention, and Treatment
- 1st Edition - June 1, 2022
- Author: Luis Miguel Rondon Garcia
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 1 6 5 9 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 8 6 1 4 - 4
Loneliness in Older Adults: Effects, Prevention, and Treatment analyzes loneliness as a complex phenomenon, taking into account the most recent contributions from neuroscie… Read more
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Request a sales quoteLoneliness 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
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Loneliness in aging: concept, typology and characteristics
- Introduction
- The context of aging, social changes
- Demographic changes
- Family changes
- Changes in values
- Conceptual approach to the term loneliness
- Ageism
- Loneliness
- Types of loneliness
- Characteristics of loneliness
- Heterogeneity
- Chapter 2. Explanatory models of the cognitive approach to loneliness
- Introduction
- Paradigms related to loneliness
- Existential paradigm
- Psychodynamic paradigm
- Interactionist paradigm
- Cognitivist paradigm
- Humanist paradigm. Person-centered model
- Final synthesis. Paradigms contributions from a multidimensional perspective
- Chapter 3. Neuroscience: in the direction of building interactive bridges against loneliness
- Introduction. Building bridges to a better understanding regarding loneliness
- The neuroscience of loneliness
- Loneliness is in the brain
- Proposals to prevent the impact of loneliness on the brain from a comprehensive perspective
- Chapter 4. The paradigm of active aging in the prevention of loneliness
- Loneliness in an increasingly aging world
- Approaches of the paradigm of active aging
- The need to build a society for all ages
- The context of active aging in the knowledge society
- Successful active aging strategies to cope with loneliness
- Chapter 5. The impact of social relations as preventive mechanisms in loneliness and quality of life of the elderly
- Introduction. Social relationships as a vector of loneliness
- Social networks as a hinge for the construction of social relationships
- Social relationships as a source of resources against loneliness
- Positive relationships as a vector to prevent loneliness
- Social relationships and quality of life
- Social relations in terms of gender and age
- Chapter 6. Loneliness from a plural point of view: immigrants, women, dependents, LGTBI
- Rainbow loneliness in LGBTI people
- Loneliness within immigrant people
- Pink loneliness from a gender perspective
- Loneliness within dependent people
- Chapter 7. Design of intervention in programs, accompaniment actions, and prevention of loneliness in the elderly
- Introduction
- The need to prevent loneliness
- Planning strategies for the prevention of loneliness
- Good practices to prevent loneliness
- Innovative projects and initiatives to prevent loneliness in different countries
- France. Program mobilization nationale contre l'isolement des âgés Monalisa
- Experiences of good practices in the fight against loneliness in Spain
- Social resources to combat loneliness
- Noninstitutional resources
- Chapter 8. Measurement tools and resources for loneliness prevention
- Introduction
- Regarding measuring loneliness
- Loneliness measurement scales
- Quantitative scales
- The Jong Gierveld scale
- UCLA loneliness scale
- East Scale of social solitude, of the University of Granada (EAST I and EAST II)
- East loneliness scale I
- East social loneliness scale II
- Qualitative loneliness measurement tools
- Tool 1. Semistructured interview to measure loneliness and its prevention
- Tool 2. Case analysis
- Phase 1. Select a case
- Phase 2. Data collection
- Phase 3. Data analysis and case study report
- Phase 4. Show the challenges that the study brings and its transfer
- Phase 5. Show and publicize the solutions provided
- Phase 6. Conclusions
- References
- Index
- No. of pages: 214
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: June 1, 2022
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323916592
- eBook ISBN: 9780323986144
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