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Cultural and contextual resources shape how loneliness is experienced and how it influences health outcomes, yet research remains limited for non-westernized cultures, rural settings, and under-resourced communities. This symposium convenes gerontological scholars to examine loneliness in French-Canadian, Latin American, and US contexts, emphasizing cultural (linguistic, familism, gender) and contextual factors that may contribute to loneliness and complicate interventions. 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Cultural and contextual resources influence the experience of loneliness, and its impact on health outcomes. Yet, there is a dearth of literature that examines the experience of loneliness in non-westernized cultures, rural spaces, or under resourced settings. This symposium brings together gerontological scholars from counseling, occupational therapy, healthcare informatics, and social work to examine loneliness in older adults navigating French-Canadian, Latin American, and US contexts. Researchers will highlight unique cultural (e.g., linguistic, familism, gender) and contextual factors (e.g., rural, transitory housing, nascent geriatric healthcare infrastructure) that may contribute to the presence of loneliness and challenge intervention implementation. Researchers will discuss findings from projects that: 1) examine the relationship of loneliness and smoking behaviors in older adults living in transitory housing in the US; 2) explore physical health, social, and technology factors that individually and jointly enhance or assuage loneliness in older adults living in rural Indiana; 3) examine health factors that facilitate social participation, and barriers and facilitatorsto implementing socialization interventions to reduce isolation and loneliness in low-income French-Canadian older adults; and 4) synthesize findings on quantitative studies investigating the relationship of loneliness and cognitive health in more than 26,000 Latin American older adults. Together, these presentations acknowledge critical cultural and contextual challenges that influence the impact of loneliness on health. Further, presentations will inform loneliness prevention and treatment efforts and highlight unique strategies to reach and include underrepresented older adults.","cbCaipsZzerRWlx3","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaipsZzerRWlx3","pdf",469093,"English","# Abstract\n## Problem and research gap\n## Symposium aims and contexts\n## Studies covered (smoking, rural Indiana, social interventions, Latin America cognitive health)\n## Expected contributions to prevention and treatment","[{\"question\":\"Why is loneliness considered a significant public health problem for older adults?\",\"answer\":\"Loneliness affects older adults worldwide and has measurable impacts on health outcomes, making it a major public health concern.\"},{\"question\":\"What cultural and contextual factors does the symposium focus on?\",\"answer\":\"The symposium highlights cultural factors such as linguistic patterns, familism, and gender, along with contextual factors including rural settings, transitory housing, and emerging geriatric healthcare infrastructure.\"},{\"question\":\"What types of research projects will be discussed?\",\"answer\":\"Presentations will cover the link between loneliness and smoking in older adults in transitory housing, factors that influence loneliness in rural Indiana, barriers and facilitators for implementing socialization interventions in low-income French-Canadian communities, and quantitative findings relating loneliness to cognitive health in over 26,000 Latin American older adults.\"}]","CONSIDERING CULTURAL AND CONTEXTUAL RESOURCES IN LONELINESS AND HEALTH STUDIES - Symposium Session | PDF",1790640225]