We did however observe age differences in the prevalence of loneliness, such that younger people were more likely to experience loneliness than older people, particularly in the most recent survey years, with a possible increasing trend in prevalence developing for younger people (15–24 years) and a decreasing trend for older people (65+ years).
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Disability-related inequalities in the prevalence of loneliness across the lifespan: trends from Australia, 2003 to 2020.
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While this change suggests an increasing trend, driven by the decrease in prevalence of loneliness in people without disability but not for people without disability, the 95% confidence intervals of the relative inequalities overlapped.