Friendship
A familiar starting point. A wider world of research.
Follow friendship through source-linked records, connected to Loneliness and ageing and Mental health and ageing. Explore the connections, then open the original evidence.
Explore the evidenceUnexpected company.
A selection of other objects mentioned in these records. Inspect the shared source to see the connection; a shared mention does not mean the same effect.
loneliness
Inspect supporting records 6social support
Inspect supporting records 3social isolation
Inspect supporting records 2Activities of daily living
Inspect supporting records 1Cognitive ageing
Inspect supporting records 1Frailty
Inspect supporting records 1More connections in this selection
physical activity
Inspect supporting records 1Where the research leads.
Published topic links attached to the selected records. Each dossier opens a wider field, including its own research ecosystem.
- Loneliness and ageingRecords in this selection 6
- Mental health and ageingRecords in this selection 3
- Activities of daily livingRecords in this selection 1
- Bone ageingRecords in this selection 1
- Cognitive ageingRecords in this selection 1
- FrailtyRecords in this selection 1
- Social connectionRecords in this selection 1
Meet the wider research ecosystem.
Follow a connected field into its universities, funding and patent activity.
University, grant and patent activity in a topic dossier concerns that wider field; it is not a friendship-specific total.
Different records. Different questions.
This is the composition of the initial 11-record selection. Open a group to inspect its supporting records. Publication types and existing automated evidence labels describe records, not their quality or conclusions. Unclassified records remain in “Other research records”.
The recent trail.
Recent sources in this selection: publication months for publications, registry update months for registrations.
Good questions to bring along.
What can I learn about friendship here?
See which permitted records mention this object, follow the topics and other objects connected through those records, and inspect the sources. Whole foods, preparations, extracts and isolated compounds keep separate identities.
Do these records establish a benefit?
A mention is a starting point for discovery. Open each original source to assess the study design, population, findings and limitations. A trial registration describes planned or registered work; it is not itself a result.
How can I compare related objects?
Open a connected object and compare the actual records, preparations and research settings. “Mentioned in the same record” explains a navigation link; it does not establish equivalence, composition or causality.
How complete is this picture?
This is the current eligible selection from the immortal.life index. Missing records or classifications do not prove that research is absent. Source permissions and corrections can change the selection.
Open the evidence.
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Composition and size of close social networks among older adults in same-sex and different-sex couples.
Are Friendship Characteristics Associated With Mental Health Declines Among Older Adults With and Without Acquired Activities of Daily Living Limitation?
Loneliness Among Adults Aging With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: The Importance of Living Situation.
Loneliness-associated factors among older adults: Focus on friendship type and number of friends.
Association between childhood friendship and cognitive ageing trajectory in later life: evidence from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS).
Intergenerational Emotional Cohesion and Psychological Well-Being of Older Adults in Rural China: A Moderated Mediation Model of Loneliness and Friendship Ties.
Prior Social Contact and Mental Health Trajectories during COVID-19: Neighborhood Friendship Protects Vulnerable Older Adults.
Beijing Friendship Hospital Osteoporosis Self-Assessment Tool for Elderly Male (BFH-OSTM) vs Fracture Risk Assessment Tool (FRAX) for identifying painful new osteoporotic vertebral fractures in older Chinese men: a cross-sectional study.
Cynical Hostility and Loneliness in Older Adult Married Couples: An Indirect Effect Through Friendships.
Friendship-related social isolation is a potential risk factor for the transition from robust to prefrailty among healthy older adults: a 1-year follow-up study.
What Are Friends for? Friendships and Loneliness Over the Lifespan-From 18 to 79 Years.
About this collection: scope and limitations
Practice or procedure · Practices and procedures can differ by protocol and setting. An observed association is not automatically an intervention effect or a longevity benefit.
Questions to check in the original studies
- What activity or procedure did the original source investigate?
- Which population, setting, comparison and follow-up were described?
- Was the activity studied as an intervention or recorded as an observational exposure?
What the displayed selection contains
11 research metadata records and 0 trial registrations were returned in the initial selection. This is not a complete worldwide evidence review. These counts do not measure benefit, safety or evidence certainty.
Interpretation remains unassessed
Open the original sources to assess study design, findings and applicability. A trial registration is not a result; a metadata mention is not a scientific conclusion. Missing matches do not establish that research is absent.
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immortal.life. friendship: research mentions. https://www.immortal.life/explore/friendship. Projection snapshot: 2026-10-10T11:21:45.198Z.
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Matching, coverage and vocabulary provenance
This automated index uses permitted minimal bibliographic metadata and checks current source and record eligibility. Literal title or controlled-term matches are discovery relationships, not scientific findings. Retained metadata coverage is bounded; historical completeness of external sources is not certified.
Foods, preparations, extracts and compounds retain distinct identities. Ambiguous labels require a choice. Source AI processing, model training and raw redistribution are disabled for this search.
Vocabulary attribution: FoodOn contributors, CC BY 4.0, filtered own-namespace labels/IDs and references; courtesy of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2026 MeSH vocabulary terms, filtered labels/entry terms; USDA FoodData Central, Foundation Foods April 2026, CC0, filtered identifiers/descriptions. No source endorsement. Navigation spelling/plural changes are separately attributed.