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Book: Aging in an Aging Society

Chapter: 4. LGBT Elders, Isolation, and Loneliness: An Existential Analysis

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.34478

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“LGBT Elders, Isolation, and Loneliness: An Existential Analysis” by Tim Johnston examines evidence showing that isolation and loneliness have a profoundly negative impact on the individual’s wellbeing because they remove, especially older LGBT adults, from temporal rhythms, thus making it difficult for them to maintain a sense of self and precariously plunging them in the past, as opposed to allowing them to be involved in future-oriented projects.

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