Timeframe
2017–2019
Funding
Jeanette Crossley Foundation
COMPASS staff
Barry Milne
Roy Lay-Yee
Collaborators
University of Auckland
Ngaire Kerse
Description
This study investigated the development of loneliness and social isolation across the life-course and examined the risk factors associated with it as well as its consequences in relation to different developmental trajectories.
Multiple sources of data were used in this analysis, including:
- A longitudinal birth cohort from the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health & Development Study (DMHDS);
- A longitudinal cohort of people aged 85+ from Life & Living in Advanced Age: A Cohort Study (LiLACS); and
- A cross-sectional cohort of respondents to the Social Attitudes Survey New Zealand in 2017, on the topic of social networks.