43). Once the study is focused, researchers examine the workshop proceedings and current prior primary sources. According to (Tant, 2011, p. 58), “twelve variables commonly associated with social isolation in the literature are gender, increasing age, never being married, divorced or widowed, lack of children, living alone, poor health, low income, not having pets, transportation problems, being on the waiting list for HACC, not speaking English and caring for someone' created a hypothesis to predict the relationship between the study variables. Another hypothesis proposed by the researcher is that "people's level of power will significantly and negatively predict their level of social isolation before intervention by the projects. funded by the HACC" (Tant, 2011, p. 101). The researcher chooses the study design and methods to test the hypothesis. Finally, appropriate analytical analyzes are used to analyze the data allowing the researcher to draw on