Does owning a pet protect older people against loneliness?

Reducing loneliness amongst older people: a systematic search and narrative review

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Pet ownership may attenuate loneliness among older adult primary care patients who live alone

(2013) Ian H. Stanley et al.   AGING & MENTAL HEALTH

Poor Health and Loneliness in Later Life: The Role of Depressive Symptoms, Social Resources, and Rural Environments

(2013) V. Burholt et al.   JOURNALS OF GERONTOLOGY SERIES B-PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

Social isolation, loneliness, and all-cause mortality in older men and women

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Living Alone and Cardiovascular Risk in Outpatients at Risk of or With Atherothrombosis

(2012) Philippe Gabriel Steg   ARCHIVES OF INTERNAL MEDICINE

Loneliness in Older Persons

(2012) Carla M. Perissinotto et al.   ARCHIVES OF INTERNAL MEDICINE

Socioeconomic position and the incidence of type 2 diabetes: the ELSA study

(2012) Panayotes Demakakos et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

Attachment to Pet Dogs and Depression in Rural Older Adults

(2011) Helen Miltiades et al.   ANTHROZOOS

Interventions targeting social isolation in older people: a systematic review

(2011) Andy P Dickens et al.   BMC PUBLIC HEALTH

Living with Companion Animals, Physical Activity and Mortality in a U.S. National Cohort

(2010) Richard F. Gillum et al.   International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Social Relationships and Mortality Risk: A Meta-analytic Review

(2010) Julianne Holt-Lunstad et al.   PLOS MEDICINE

Women, Loneliness, and Incident Coronary Heart Disease

(2009) Rebecca C. Thurston et al.   PSYCHOSOMATIC MEDICINE

An Examination of the Relations between Social Support, Anthropomorphism and Stress Among Dog Owners

(2008) Nikolina M. Duvall Antonacopoulos et al.   ANTHROZOOS

Animal-Assisted Therapy and Loneliness in Nursing Homes: Use of Robotic versus Living Dogs

(2008) Marian R. Banks et al.   Journal of the American Medical Directors Association