The Leveraging Exercise to Age in Place (LEAP) Study: Engaging Older Adults in Community-Based Exercise Classes to Impact Loneliness and Social Isolation.

Objective: Social isolation and loneliness are associated with morbidity and mortality in older adults. Limited evidence exists regarding which interventions improve connectedness in this population.

Design/setting/participants: In this pre-post study we assessed community-based group health class participants' (age ≥50) loneliness and social isolation.