Webinar: Rural social isolation and loneliness: Rates, importance, and identifying risk

This is session one in a three part series on rural social isolation and loneliness among aged adults.

In this session, participants will learn about loneliness and social isolation among older adults in rural and urban areas. Dr. Henning Smith will speak to the data, what we know, how social isolation and loneliness are unique in rural areas, and how rural social isolation is a health and mortality risk factor. She will discuss what has changed as a result of the current health pandemic, how can we prepare rural providers to ask questions to determine isolation/loneliness, and what can we do for rural people who are experiencing isolation/loneliness.