{
  "id": 17502,
  "url": "https://www.jmir.org/2026/1/e96187",
  "title": "Heterogeneous Associations Between Frequent Virtual Communication and Loneliness Among Older Adults: Observational Analysis",
  "summary": "Background: Loneliness is a long-standing and widely acknowledged public health problem among older adults, yet evidence remains mixed regarding how virtual communication is associated with loneliness. Less is known about whether this association varies across baseline profiles among older adults. Objective: This study aimed to examine the association between frequent virtual communication with family, friends, or acquaintances and loneliness among older adults in Japan and explore whether this",
  "authors": "Daisuke Kato, Ichiro Kawachi, Katsunori Kondo, Atsushi Nakagomi, Koichiro Shiba",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "healthcare",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": "japan",
  "published_at": "2026-08-07T21:30:40.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-08T05:10:34.355Z",
  "source_slug": "x-jmir-journal-of-medical-internet-researc",
  "source_name": "JMIR (Journal of Medical Internet Research)",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.jmir.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17502",
  "original_url": "https://www.jmir.org/2026/1/e96187",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}