Social disconnection and Suicide Risk in Late Life (R01)
Funds work on how isolation and loneliness raise suicide risk in later life — the mechanisms, the interventions and the services.
Loneliness and isolation are not the same thing, and this notice takes both seriously. It funds research into how social disconnection in later life — being objectively isolated, and separately feeling isolated — drives suicidal thinking and behaviour.
NIH names three directions. Identifying the neurobiological and environmental mechanisms that turn disconnection into risk. Using an experimental …
The link between social disconnection in later life — both objective social isolation and perceived isolation, or loneliness — and suicidal thoughts and behaviour: the neurobiological and environmental mechanisms behind it, experimental-therapeutics work to find targets and test interventions, and new or adapted service delivery models that increase social connection.
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