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Methodology Spot: December 2024

Test your knowledge with our methodology quick quiz. This month's focus is loneliness. This question comes from Contact Assessment v10, item D20.

While completing the interRAI Contact Assessment, you ask Lily about feeling lonely, She tells you that since her partner died two years ago, she feels lonely frequently but she keeps herself busy so doesn’t feel lonely everyday. Her family visits weekly and she looks forward to those visits.  
 
How would you code this? 

0. Not lonely 

1. Only in certain situations of triggered by specific events

2. Occasionally (less than weekly) 

3. Frequently (weekly but less than daily)

4. Daily 

 

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Answers:

3. – Frequently (weekly but less than daily)