Loneliness and social isolation risk factors in community-dwelling older adults receiving home health services

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Risk for social isolation is highly prevalent among diverse, homebound older adults. Home health care is ideally situated for loneliness assessment and intervention for an otherwise hard to reach, vulnerable population. EHR data can be leveraged to identify individuals at risk and additional brief indicators integrated into the EHR (e.g., validated loneliness assessment, social isolation metrics) may be valuable to facilitate identification and stratification of individuals at risk.