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Loneliness

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Digitising Social Care Glossary, v0.0.3

Digitising Social Care

Loneliness is a subjective, unwelcome feeling of lack or loss of companionship, which happens when there is a mismatch between the quantity and quality of the social relationships that we have, and those that we want (Perlman and Peplau, 1981)

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