Promoting social capital to alleviate loneliness and improve health among older people in Spain.

@article{CollPlanas2017PromotingSC,
  title={Promoting social capital to alleviate loneliness and improve health among older people in Spain.},
  author={Laura Coll-Planas and Gabriela Del Valle G{\'o}mez and Petra Bonilla and Teresa Masat and Teresa Puig and Rosa Monteser{\'i}n},
  journal={Health \& social care in the community},
  year={2017},
  volume={25 1},
  pages={
          145-157
        }
}
Loneliness is especially frequent among older people in Southern Europe. Furthermore, promoting social capital to tackle loneliness and its health effects is an understudied intervention strategy. Therefore, a complex intervention was piloted in Spain in a pre-post study with a 2-year follow-up. Its aims were to explore the feasibility of the intervention and its short- and long-term effects. It was conducted in one mixed rural-urban and two urban areas of diverse socioeconomic levels from 2011… 
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