“…Marital status (married/living as married versus single) has also been associated with internet use (Hogeboom et al, 2010;Berner et al, 2017), social isolation and loneliness (Peplau, 1985;Grenade and Boldy, 2008;Steptoe et al, 2013b;Hawkley and Kocherginsky, 2017;Kobayashi and Steptoe, 2018). Socio-economic status (SES) was assessed using household non-pension wealth as this has been identified as an appropriate indicator of SES in older adults (Banks et al, 2004) and used in previous studies utilising the ELSA data-set Smith et al, 2015;Quintana et al, 2018;Jackson et al, 2019aJackson et al, , 2019b. This was entered as a covariate as it has previously been associated with internet use (Hogeboom et al, 2010;Berry, 2011), social isolation and loneliness (Choi and Dinitto, 2013;Steptoe et al, 2013b;Kobayashi and Steptoe, 2018).…”