Effect of Isolation on Cognitive Decline

Dear Editor, Social isolation is a term that means a person doesn’t have enough contact with other people. Isolation is an objective state that can be shown as the number of contacts a person has and can be counted. There is some factor in defining isolation, including living alone, have face to face contact with other people or through the media, the number of friends and family that an individual has, and be a member of social groups [1].