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From Loneliness to Social Connection: Charting a Path to Healthier Societies
This World Health Organization report illuminates the widespread yet overlooked impacts of social isolation and loneliness on individual health and society as a whole. Based on current evidence, it emphasizes the need for immediate, coordinated …
How Libraries Help Combat Loneliness
From the article, “How Libraries Help Combat Loneliness:” “Loneliness affects more than 9 million people across the country. Find out how libraries are at the forefront doing great work to bring people together.”
Maybe Isolation, Not Loneliness, Shortens Life
In this podcast, a team of researchers studied 6,500 men and women ages 52 and older from the U.K. All of them had answered a questionnaire back in 2004 or 2005 that assessed both their …
Social Isolation, Loneliness, and All-Cause Mortality in Older Men and Women
From the abstract: Both social isolation and loneliness are associated with increased mortality, but it is uncertain whether their effects are independent or whether loneliness represents the emotional pathway through which social isolation impairs health. …
The Agony of Weekend Loneliness: ‘I Won’t Speak to Another Human until Monday’
From The Guardian site: “Despite all this, the phenomenon of weekend loneliness has scarcely been studied. ‘It’s not something that’s been researched at all,’ says Pamela Qualter, professor of psychology for education at the University …
Which Is Worse, Being Lonely or Just Being Alone?
From the article: The researchers at University College London knew from previous studies that both isolation and loneliness raised a person’s risk of death. What they wanted to see was whether one condition – or …