Societal- and community-level strategies to improve social connectedness among older adults

Front Public Health. 2023 May 4:11:1176895. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1176895. eCollection 2023.

Matthew Lee Smith^{1

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3}, Jillian Racoosin^{4

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6}, Risa Wilkerson⁷, Ronald Matthew Ivey⁸, Louise Hawkley⁹, Julianne Holt-Lunstad^{4

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10}, Thomas K M Cudjoe¹¹

¹ School of Public Health, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States.
² Center for Community Health and Aging, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States.
³ Center for Health Equity and Evaluation Research, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States.
⁴ Foundation for Social Connection, Washington, DC, United States.
⁵ Coalition to End Social Isolation and Loneliness, Washington, DC, United States.
⁶ Global Initiative on Loneliness and Connection, Washington, DC, United States.
⁷ Healthy Places by Design, Carrboro, NC, United States.
⁸ The Human Flourishing Program, The Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States.
⁹ Academic Research Centers, NORC at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States.
¹⁰ Departments of Psychology and Neuroscience, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, United States.
¹¹ Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States.

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Keywords: community capacity; loneliness; organizational collaboration; social connectedness; social isolation; strategic initiatives.

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