Druz V.F.
THE INFLUENCE OF LONELY LIVING ON PSYCHIATRIC STATE OF AGED PATIENTS AND FACTORS DETERMINING IT ^{[№ 10 ' 2012]}
Clinical and social-psychiatric methods were used to examine 235 60 and over year old patients living alone, followed-up in the psychoneurological dispensary. Lonely living influenced negatively on most patients (62,6%), rarer there was indifferent (22,5%) and positive (14,9%) influence. Clinico-social factors determining the character of lonely living influence on psychiatric state of patients were also disclosed.