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Loneliness in life and in death? Social and demographic patterns of unclaimed deaths

We examined family isolation, economic hardship, and long-distance migration as potential patterns of an extreme outcome of a lonely death: bodily remains that remain unclaimed and are left to the state. This paper combines a unique dataset—Los Angeles County's records of unclaimed deaths—with...

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Autores principales: Sohn, Heeju, Timmermans, Stefan, Prickett, Pamela J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7494098/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32936820
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0238348