(Older) Adults without advocates

Support for alternative terminology to “elder orphan” in research and clinical contexts

Kervin, Lucy M. BA
Chamberlain, Stephanie A. PhD
Wister, Andrew V. PhD
Cosco, Theodore D. PhD

¹Gerontology Research Center, Department of Gerontology Simon Fraser University Vancouver Canada
²Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry University of Alberta Edmonton Alberta Canada
³ Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, University of Oxford Oxford UK

Correspondence Lucy M. Kervin, Gerontology Research Center, Simon Fraser University, 2800‐515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, V6B 5K3, Canada. Email: [email protected]

Received in revised form June 10, 2022

Received April 16, 2022

Accepted June 23, 2022

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 70(11):p 3329-3333, November 2022. | DOI: 10.1111/jgs.17960