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Loneliness and Isolation Versus Wisdom and Compassion During the Pandemic
Our studies of US national-level samples across adult lifespan as well as older adults in California and in Italy’s Cilento region have found a consistently strong inverse correlation between loneliness and wisdom, especially its compassion component. Loneliness and social isolation are associated w...
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2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8680563/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.2088 |
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description | Our studies of US national-level samples across adult lifespan as well as older adults in California and in Italy’s Cilento region have found a consistently strong inverse correlation between loneliness and wisdom, especially its compassion component. Loneliness and social isolation are associated with worse physical and mental health while the reverse is true for wisdom and compassion. Follow-up of older adults in San Diego during the Covid-19 pandemic showed no change in this pattern. While the effects of the pandemic and the necessary social distancing were heterogeneous, older adults generally handled these stresses better than younger adults, with less loneliness and greater compassion. Our recent studies assessing EEG responses to emotional stimuli as well as alpha and beta diversity in gut microbiome showed opposing biological patterns characterizing loneliness and wisdom. I will also present preliminary data from a compassion training intervention to reduce loneliness among older adults. |
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spelling | pubmed-86805632021-12-17 Loneliness and Isolation Versus Wisdom and Compassion During the Pandemic Jeste, Dilip Innov Aging Abstracts Our studies of US national-level samples across adult lifespan as well as older adults in California and in Italy’s Cilento region have found a consistently strong inverse correlation between loneliness and wisdom, especially its compassion component. Loneliness and social isolation are associated with worse physical and mental health while the reverse is true for wisdom and compassion. Follow-up of older adults in San Diego during the Covid-19 pandemic showed no change in this pattern. While the effects of the pandemic and the necessary social distancing were heterogeneous, older adults generally handled these stresses better than younger adults, with less loneliness and greater compassion. Our recent studies assessing EEG responses to emotional stimuli as well as alpha and beta diversity in gut microbiome showed opposing biological patterns characterizing loneliness and wisdom. I will also present preliminary data from a compassion training intervention to reduce loneliness among older adults. Oxford University Press 2021-12-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8680563/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.2088 Text en © The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Abstracts Jeste, Dilip Loneliness and Isolation Versus Wisdom and Compassion During the Pandemic |
title | Loneliness and Isolation Versus Wisdom and Compassion During the Pandemic |
title_full | Loneliness and Isolation Versus Wisdom and Compassion During the Pandemic |
title_fullStr | Loneliness and Isolation Versus Wisdom and Compassion During the Pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | Loneliness and Isolation Versus Wisdom and Compassion During the Pandemic |
title_short | Loneliness and Isolation Versus Wisdom and Compassion During the Pandemic |
title_sort | loneliness and isolation versus wisdom and compassion during the pandemic |
topic | Abstracts |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8680563/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.2088 |
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