What defines 'isolation' ?

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A question I would ask is what defines 'isolation' ? At my old address most fortnights the only contact I had was at the depot clinic. I saw family very sporadically when they visited.
Here I see my stepdaughter several times a week and my granddaughters several times a month . I also see the depot nurse every fortnight. There is no other regular contact. Am I still isolated I wonder?? Is isolation measured by how many people you see or how proactive you are in seeing other people. By the former yardstick I see people more frequently. By the latter yardstick I'm no more or less proactive. It's just that family are closer to me.

Then there is the issue of - 1)How to make contact with others 2)How to form relationships from that social contact. Above all that is perhaps how much are you driven/want to interact with others in the first place . Most of the time I'm happy with my own company. I don't go out of my way to interact with others.
I am , I think,more asocial than social.

I think of isolation as the potential for one to get in a bad situation, and have no one to turn to for help.

Even though I have a husband and kids and work colleagues that I see every day, I feel quite isolated sometimes. Because my colleagues are not close enough for me to feel comfortable asking them for help with personal matters, I don't want to burden my kids with my concerns, so there's only my husband to rely on. And if I'm having a problem with him...

In my childhood and teens, it was defined as having few or no friends.

In my adulthood, it was being stuck in a rut with no way to get out of it.

At its core I would say its when you don't feel like you belong to society or a group.