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31
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7547
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  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Best Publications

  • Changes in levels of social isolation and loneliness among older people in a rural area: a twenty-year longitudinal study

    G. Clare Wenger;Vanessa Burholt

  • Short Form 36 (SF-36) Health Survey Questionnaire: normative data for Wales.

    Vanessa Burholt;Paul Nash

  • Loneliness and Ethnic Minority Elders in Great Britain: An Exploratory Study

    Christina R. Victor;Vanessa Burholt;Wendy Martin

  • Research on rural ageing: Where have we got to and where are we going in Europe?

    Vanessa Burholt;Christine Dobbs

  • Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Loneliness and Social Isolation: A Multi-Country Study.

    Roger O’Sullivan;Annette Burns;Gerard Leavey;Iracema Leroi

  • Poor Health and Loneliness in Later Life: The Role of Depressive Symptoms, Social Resources, and Rural Environments

    Vanessa Burholt;Thomas Scharf

  • Consensus statement: loneliness in older adults, the 21st century social determinant of health?

    Thomas Prohaska;Vanessa Burholt;Vanessa Burholt;Annette Burns;Jeannette Golden

  • Life satisfaction of older people in six European countries: Findings from the European Study on adult well-being

    Dieter Ferring;Cristian Balducci;Vanessa Burholt;Clare Wenger

  • Life satisfaction in 6 European Countries : The Relationship to health, Self-Esteem, and Social and Financial Resources among People (Aged 65-89) with Reduced Functional Capacity

    Christel Borg;Cecilia Fagerström;Cristian Balducci;Vanessa Burholt

  • A unified approach to loneliness.

    Linda Fried;Thomas Prohaska;Vanessa Burholt;Annette Burns;Annette Burns

  • A Social Model of Loneliness: The Roles of Disability, Social Resources, and Cognitive Impairment.

    Vanessa Burholt;Gill Windle;Deborah J Morgan

  • A critical review and development of a conceptual model of exclusion from social relations for older people.

    Vanessa Burholt;Bethan Winter;Marja Aartsen;Costas Constantinou

  • Life Satisfaction and Associated Factors Among People Aged 60 Years and Above in Six European Countries

    Cecilia Fagerström;Cecilia Fagerström;Christel Borg;Cristian Balducci;Vanessa Burholt

  • Housing related difficulties, housing tenure and variations in health status: evidence from older people in Wales.

    Gillian S. Windle;Vanessa Burholt;Rhiannon T. Edwards

  • ‘Adref’: theoretical contexts of attachment to place for mature and older people in rural North Wales

    Vanessa Burholt

  • Parent child relations among very old parents in Wales and the United States: A test of modernization theory

    Merril Silverstein;Vanessa Burholt;G.Clare Wenger;Vern L. Bengtson

  • Transnationalism, economic transfers and families’ ties: Intercontinental contacts of older Gujaratis, Punjabis and Sylhetis in Birmingham with families abroad

    Vanessa Burholt

  • The settlement patterns and residential histories of older Gujaratis, Punjabis and Sylhetis in Birmingham, England

    Vanessa Burholt

  • The relationship between rural community type and attachment to place for older people living in North Wales, UK

    Vanessa Burholt;Dawn Naylor

  • New insights on the genetic etiology of Alzheimer’s and related dementia

    Bellenguez C;Küçükali F;Jansen I;Andrade;Andrade

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