Social Isolation and Sleep Disturance in Aging: Inflammatory Mechanisms
Description: Project Narrative Social isolation has significant health consequences in older adults, but it is not known how feelings of loneliness and loss of emotional connections lead to increases in disease risk. Given our evidence that social isolation is associated with sleep disturbance, and such sleep difficulties increase inflammation with consequences for a number of medical disorders including cardiovascular disorder, diabetes mellitus, and cancer, this study will examine the relationships between social isolation, sleep disturbance and inflammation in socially isolated older adults. This study will inform the development of potential treatments that target disordered sleep with possible prevention of disease outcomes in older adults who are socially isolated.
Funder: National Institute on Aging
Funding type: research
Funder scheme: R01
Start date: 2009-09-15
End date: 2015-08-31
Investigator: MICHAEL R IRWIN
Institution: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES
Topic: Sleep and related disorders
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Funded outputs count: 106
Funder award ID: R01AG034588
OpenAlex ID: G2553325857