Loneliness in older adults

Affiliations

¹ Division of Geriatric Medicine (Stall, Rochon), Department of Medicine, University of Toronto; Women's College Research Institute (Stall, Savage, Rochon), Women's College Hospital; Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (Stall, Rochon), University of Toronto; ICES (Savage), Toronto, Ont.
² Division of Geriatric Medicine (Stall, Rochon), Department of Medicine, University of Toronto; Women's College Research Institute (Stall, Savage, Rochon), Women's College Hospital; Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (Stall, Rochon), University of Toronto; ICES (Savage), Toronto, Ont. paula.rochon@wchospital.ca.

Nathan M Stall et al. CMAJ. 2019.

. 2019 Apr 29;191(17):E476.

doi: 10.1503/cmaj.181655.

¹ Division of Geriatric Medicine (Stall, Rochon), Department of Medicine, University of Toronto; Women's College Research Institute (Stall, Savage, Rochon), Women's College Hospital; Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (Stall, Rochon), University of Toronto; ICES (Savage), Toronto, Ont.
² Division of Geriatric Medicine (Stall, Rochon), Department of Medicine, University of Toronto; Women's College Research Institute (Stall, Savage, Rochon), Women's College Hospital; Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (Stall, Rochon), University of Toronto; ICES (Savage), Toronto, Ont. paula.rochon@wchospital.ca.

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared.

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