Carla Perissinotto
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first heard Aug 2021
last heard Aug 2021
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It it depends on what kind of clinician you are and and and and what's important to you, but ultimately loneliness actually matters to our patients.
It really has to do with quality of life.
And if we do not ask about what is going on in people's social lives, we are missing out a huge part of their lives and what may be actually um distressing.
So we may be asking about hypertension when really what they're focused on is the fact that no one calls them all weak.
I mean, that is a very simple answer.
You know, the more complex answer is that across the board, both loneliness and isolation in different ways, and again, depending on how they've been measured, are linked with pretty serious health.
outcomes.
And you know, again, in the study that I published in 2012, um, we demonstrated that over six-year period, people that reported higher rates of loneliness had higher risk of dying, 45% increased risk of dying, and 59% increased risk of loss of independence and functional decline, outcomes that are significant and important to our patients.
And then if you look at every other health outcome, cardiovascular disease, uh
Risk of dementia, diabetes outcomes, all cause mortality, there are significant risks.
And then if you look at the finances, because God knows American healthcare is complex and expensive, we know that studies, one study done by AERP, showed that people who were isolated, although I do think that there are people that were lonely also, had raised Medicare costs.
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This is not insignificant in terms of the personal effects, the familial effects, the societal effects, and the economic effects.
You know what's interesting, Ashwan.
I was just thinking about this because, you know, it's very neat.
Like when you think about loneliness and isolation, a lot of it is common sense.
In other ways, there are some findings that are that are sometimes surprising.
And this is what's fascinating to me about being a clinician and then also bridging over to research because you see things in your clinical practice and then you see it in the numbers.
So to know about your research and that you see the medication use, and then we have this evaluation.
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