Loneliness: An Obstacle in Quality Life of Elderly.

This paper makes an effort to comprehend how loneliness affects quality of life and other psychological restraints. Many elders face new challenges in this period and do not have access to their supportive resources as correctly as the past. For the purpose of the same, the data was collected from elderly aged 61-65 years from New Delhi. The tools used for this paper include Revised UCLA Loneliness scale (Russell, 1980), The Symptom Checklist-90-R (Dergotis, 1970) and Older People's Quality of Life (Bowling, 2007, 2009, 2010). The results were further interpreted by using the pearson correlation. It can be concluded that loneliness creates depression, which further contributes to poor quality of life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]