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Loneliness contributes to major health problems among the elderly people and its associates
are still in dispute and nurses have a limited means to alleviate it. When people get older and
experience different kinds of losses they are exposed to the threat of loneliness that might
lead to death. Earlier research findings suggest that about a third of elderly Finnish people
suffer from loneliness in Finnish health care institutions