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Associations between social isolation, loneliness, and objective physical activity in older men and women

BMC Public Health, 2019
BackgroundThe impact of social isolation and loneliness on health risk may be mediated by a combination of direct biological processes and lifestyle factors.
Stephanie Schrempft, M. Jackowska, M. Hamer, A. Steptoe   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Building Community Amidst the Institutional Whiteness of Graduate Study: Black Joy and Maroon Moves in an Academic Marronage

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reflects on the construction of a supportive community of Black Afro‐diasporic graduate students and their supervisors researching issues relating to race in the field of education in Australia. It draws on the concept of marronage—a term rooted in the fugitive act of becoming a maroon, where enslaved people enacted an escape in ...
Hellen Magoi, Casianus Gemoh, Denise Chapman, Edmund Hypolite, Simon Angok, Melanie Baak, Joel Windle   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Interventions to reduce social isolation and loneliness among older people: an integrative review

Health and Social Care in the community, 2018
Loneliness and social isolation are major problems for older adults. Interventions and activities aimed at reducing social isolation and loneliness are widely advocated as a solution to this growing problem.
C. Gardiner, G. Geldenhuys, M. Gott
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Navigating Whiteness in Australia's Anti‐Racism Movement: A Duoethnographic Inquiry by Women of Colour Scholars

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper applies Critical Race Theory (CRT) to explore how whiteness operates within Australia's anti‐racism movement as a structuring force that shapes discourse, practice and policy. Despite the anti‐racism movement offering crucial spaces for resistance and reform, it remains entangled in Australia's settler‐colonial present and systemic ...
Franka Vaughan, Aish Ravi
wiley   +1 more source

International students' loneliness, depression and stress levels in COVID-19 crisis. The role of social media and the host university

, 2020
The move to university life is characterized by strong emotions, some of them negative, such as loneliness, anxiety, and depression. These negative emotions are strengthened due to the obligatory lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Misirlis, Nikolaos, Weber, David, Zwaan, Miriam H.   +2 more
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How Do I Answer This? A Queer Critique of Australian Census Forms and the Reification of Cisheteronormative Families

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper presents a critical examination of Australia's 2021 household, individual and interviewer census forms. Using a form‐led analysis, this research scrutinises the underlying cisheteronormative logic that implicitly shapes the Census process, from data collection to distribution of findings.
Xavier Mills, Sal Clark
wiley   +1 more source

Colored Subjectivities: Self, Mind, and Body in Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners [PDF]

, 2021
فرزاد Kolahjooyee
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‘Hurry Up and Get Me out of Here’: The Experience of People Under 65 Years (Still) Stuck in Aged Care

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Following the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety, the Australian Government set a target for no‐one under 65 years of age to be living in residential aged care (RAC) by 2025. The numbers of young people in residential aged care (YPIRAC) have significantly declined since the start of the targets.
Elroy Dearn, Kate D'Cruz, Mark Brown, Jacinta Douglas, Dianne Winkler   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Higher amyloid is associated with greater loneliness among cognitively normal older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]

F1000Research
Background Loneliness has been associated with several consequences, including increased risk of developing Alzheimer disease (AD). Loneliness may arise during the preclinical phase of AD, but little is known about the relationship between loneliness and
Susan Stark, Abigail Kehrer-Dunlap, Anne Fagan, Beau Ances, Audrey Keleman, Regina Thompson, Rebecca Bollinger, Szu-Wei Chen   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Isolation and Loneliness: Implications for Health and Well-Being of Older Populations [PDF]

, 2021
Julianne Holt‐Lunstad
openalex   +1 more source