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Reducing Isolation among Inner-City Elders: An Outcome Evaluation

School of Policy, Planning, and Development, University of Southern California

William L. Beery, MPH

Group Health Kaiser Permanente Community Foundation

The research reported here evaluates outcomes of an intervention designed to reduce isolation and improve health and quality of life within a multiracial population of elders in Seattle. Carried out by a coalition of community groups, this intervention aimed at linking potentially isolated older people with individual peers, individuals outside their own age group, and social, volunteer, and community groups. A 3-year, longitudinal study was conducted on 87 elders. A statistically significant relationship was found between participation in the intervention and group attendance at least 1 year after the intervention; a near-significant relationship was found between participation in the intervention and contact with non-elders. No relationships were found between the intervention and health status or quality of life, although, such relationships may be detectable in longer term follow-up studies.

Health Promotion Practice, Vol. 2, No. 3, 233-241 (2001)
DOI: 10.1177/152483990100200307


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