Social isolation, social support, and loneliness and their relationship with cognitive health and dementia

Background Poor social health is prevalent in older adults and may be associated with worse cognition, and increased dementia risk. The aim of this study was to determine whether social isolation, social support and loneliness are independently associated with cognitive function and incident dementia over 5 years in older adults, and to investigate potential gender differences. Methods Participants were 11,498 community‐dwelling relatively...