TY  - JOUR
T1  - HEalth status in elderly persons living alone—reply
AU  - Perissinotto C, Covinsky KE
Y1  - 2013/02/25
N1  - 10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.2136
JO  - JAMA Internal Medicine
SP  - 323
EP  - 324
VL  - 173
IS  - 4
N2  - 
We appreciate the comments submitted by Rozzini and Trabucchi and Simons et al and commend their work in exploring the effects of living alone and social support on health. As demonstrated in our article,1 one cannot equate loneliness and social isolation because what they each measure captures a different aspect of overall social support. Because of its subjective nature, loneliness is a much more complex phenomenon and has health effects that can be seen even in those who are living with others and therefore not truly quantitatively socially isolated.

SN  - 2168-6106
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.2136
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.2136
ER  -