Objective: To identify the factors associated with the categories of loneliness among the elderly population attendingday care centers in Bogotá, Colombia.Materials and methods: An analytical, cross-sectional and quantitative study was carried out to measure the lonelinessamong older people attending a day care center in the city of Bogotá between November 2020 and June 2021 usingthe ESTE scale. To meet the objective, a univariate descriptive statistical analysis was performed, such that, for thequantitative variables, the mean with standard deviation or median with interquartile ranges were used, in accordance with the Shapiro-Wilk test for normality, and for the categorical variables, absolute frequencies and proportions wereused. The bivariate analysis was conducted using Student’s t-test and chi-square test (p < 0.05), which contributed tobuild a logistic regression model with...