The association of multimorbidity, loneliness, social exclusion and network size: findings from the population-based German Ageing Survey.

While there was an association between multimorbidity and increased social exclusion as well as increased loneliness, regressions also revealed an association between multimorbidity and an increased network size. Although the association between multimorbidity and our outcome measures is weak, its complex nature should be investigated further using a longitudinal approach.