COVID-19 mitigation efforts had the potential to exacerbate loneliness among older adults,
particularly for the unpartnered or childless, yet specific studies on loneliness among these …

Objectives This paper examines the family ties of older adults in the United States and how
they are associated with mental health and social activity. We compare older adults with 4 …

Background Health lifestyles exert a substantial influence on the quality of everyday life,
primarily affecting health maintenance and enhancement. While health-related practices …

Previous research has demonstrated that family transitions, specifically births and deaths of
preceding and following generations within families, are associated with individuals' later …

Objectives Adult loneliness is a substantial social problem and a growing point of concern
for policymakers around the world. We assess whether the predictors of loneliness onset …

Objectives We examine cross-national variation in (a) loneliness trajectories and (b) the
association between common social risk factors and chronic loneliness in middle and older …

Objectives Do adults without kin experience a care gap where they need help with activities
of daily living but get no help from any source? We examine the prevalence of the care gap …

While much previous work linking fertility history with late-life cognition has focused on a
narrow set of cognitive measures and/or has used modest sample sizes in the analysis, our …

Markers of social health, including kinlessness, social isolation, and loneliness, have
important implications for quality of life and health for older adults. As the population ages …

Objective We compare maternal and adult child health outcomes across (1) estranged (ie,
no contact, or low contact and low quality),(2) socially positive (ie, high quality, moderate to …