For years, research has shown that older adults who are lonely are at greater risk for cognitive decline and conditions like Alzheimer’s disease. Those studies, however, generally treated loneliness as a stable trait of someone’s life, but loneliness fluctuates from day to day and even over the course of a single day. Across one or two days, momentary loneliness and cognitive performance seem to have a complex relationship that may reinforce one another, according to a new study from researchers in the Penn State College of Health and Human Development.
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