Loneliness, loss, and social support among cognitively intact older people with cancer, living in nursing homes – a mixed-methods study

Abstract

Enhancing the lives of nursing home residents with cancer requires attending to the residents' experience of loneliness and social relationships in a targeted and individualized manner. This might require screening all nursing home residents for early detection of loneliness. Revealing factors that may contribute to or reduce loneliness improves the ability to enhance people's lives.