Social isolation and loneliness: Prospective associations with functional status in older adults.

The present analysis aimed to examine the associations of isolation and loneliness, individually as well as simultaneously, with 2 measures of functional status (gait speed and difficulties in activities of daily living) in older adults over a 6-year period using data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, and to assess if these associations differ by SES.Loneliness was measured using the short form of the Revised UCLA scale, and an...