The most commonly cited marker of exclusion from social relations is loneliness. However, other outcomes from pathways to social exclusion from social relations that may be equally as important to the individual or society, but are less well documented than loneliness. In a theoretical model developed by the working group on exclusion from social relations that is part of the European Cost Action 15122 Reducing Old-Age Social Exclusion: Collaborations in Research and Policy (ROSEnet), the distal outcomes of well-being (e.g. quality of life, life satisfaction, loneliness and belonging); health and functioning; social opportunities and social cohesion are conceptualized as emergent products of a system, in which individual risks, community, environment and macro-structures (governmental policies, values and normative beliefs) are inextricably connected to objective and subjective experiences of exclusion from social relations. The presentations – from the UK, Belgium, Canada and New Zealan - explore the trajectories to exclusion from social relations taking into account the influence of caregiving (Keating et al) and material resources (Waldegrave et al) on the quantity and quality of social relations, psychological resources that may moderate the influence of exclusion on outcomes (De Donder et al), and belonging, social cohesion (Winter & Burholt) and life satisfaction as alternative outcomes (to loneliness) from exclusion. The symposium will start with a brief introduction to the ROSEnet theoretical model of exclusion from social relations. This will be followed by the series of presentations that describe alternative pathways using qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods.
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