2025
- Recent Innovations in Peer Programs for Socially Isolated Older Adults: Implications for Public Health Emergency Preparedness (July 2025) A. A.Kotwal, S.Fuller, K.Hough, et al.
- The need for scientific leadership and collaboration to enhance social connection: A call to action (June 2025) Holt-Lunstad J, Cudjoe TKM, Dumitriu D, Ellison NB, Kotwal AA, Pantell MS, Perissinotto CM, Smith ML.
- Healthcare providers’ perceived importance and barriers to addressing social connection in medical settings (February 2025) Holt-Lunstad, J., Proctor, A. S., Perissinotto, C., Cheng, A., Cudjoe, T. K. M., Kotwal, A. A., & Morley, T.
2024
- Can Machine Learning Help Us Understand Social Connection and Its Impact on Health? (December 2024) Cudjoe TKM, Kotwal AA. C
- Policy Brief Report: Recovery and Expansion: Benefits of Peer Interventions Addressing Loneliness and Social Isolation Among Older Adults (September 2024)
- Psychosocial distress among spouses of persons with dementia before and after their partner's death. Kotwal A, Cenzer I, Hunt L, Ankuda C, Torres J, Smith A, Aldridge M, Harrison K, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, June 2024.
- “Relationships, Very Quickly, Turn to Nothing”: Loneliness, Social Isolation, and Adaptation to Changing Social Lives Among Persons Living With Dementia and Care Partners, Kotwal A, Allison T, Halim M, Garrett S, Perissinotto C, Ritchie C, Smith A, Harrison K, The Gerontologist, April 2024,.
- Lending a Hand: Peer Programs to Address Social Isolation and Loneliness in Older Adults. American Society on Aging Conference, March 2024.
2023
- Barriers and Facilitators to Telemedicine for Older Adults in Specialty Clinics. American Society on Aging Conference, March 2023.
- Community Based Organization's Perceptions on Evaluation. American Society on Aging Conference, March 2023.
- What Are “Social Prescriptions” and How Should They Be Integrated Into Care Plans? Hough K, Kotwal A, Boyd C, Tha S, Perissinotto C. AMA J Ethics. 2023;23(11):E795-801.
- Social Isolation and Loneliness as Medical Issues. N Engl J Med. 2023 Jan 14. Holt-Lunstad J, Perissinotto C. PMID: 36648080.
- End-of-life health care use among socially isolated and cognitively impaired older adults. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2023 03; 71(3):880-887. Kotwal AA, Cenzer IS, Yaffe K, Perissinotto C, Smith AK. PMID: 36420540; PMCID: PMC10023302.
2022
- Persistent loneliness due to COVID-19 over 18 months of the pandemic: A prospective cohort study. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2022 12; 70(12):3469-3479. Kotwal AA, Batio S, Wolf MS, Covinsky KE, Yoshino Benavente J, Perissinotto CM, O'Conor RM. PMID: 36054661; PMCID: PMC9539351.
- The True Cause of Death. JAMA. 2022 07 05; 328(1):19-20. Perissinotto CM. PMID: 35788791.
2021
- The epidemiology of social isolation and loneliness among older adults during the last years of life. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2021 11; 69(11):3081-3091. Kotwal AA, Cenzer IS, Waite LJ, Covinsky KE, Perissinotto CM, Boscardin WJ, Hawkley LC, Dale W, Smith AK. PMID: 34247388; PMCID: PMC8595510.
- A peer intervention reduces loneliness and improves social well-being in low-income older adults: A mixed-methods study, Kotwal AA, Fuller SM, Myers JJ, Hill D, Tha SH, Smith AK, M Perissinotto C; Journal Of The American Geriatrics Society; 2021.
- Use of High-risk Medications Among Lonely Older Adults: Results From a Nationally Representative Sample, Kotwal AA, Steinman MA, Cenzer I, Smith AK; JAMA Internal Medicine; 2021.
2020
- Social Isolation and Loneliness Among San Francisco Bay Area Older Adults During the COVID-19 Shelter-in-Place Orders, Kotwal AA, Holt-Lunstad J, Newmark RL, Cenzer I, Smith AK, Covinsky KE, Escueta DP, Lee JM, Perissinotto CM; Journal Of The American Geriatrics Society; 2020.
- Social Isolation and Loneliness in Older Adults: Opportunities for the Health Care System. National Academies of Sciences, E. and Medicine (2020). Washington, DC, The National Academies Press.
- "The Impact of Peer Mentoring on Loneliness, Depression, and Social Engagement in Long-Term Care." Theurer, K. A., et al. (2020). J Appl Gerontol: 733464820910939.
2019 and prior
- "Preventing social isolation in older people." Cotterell, N., et al. (2018). Maturitas 113: 80-84.