New Delhi: Loneliness among the elderly is emerging as a serious but often overlooked concern, doctors have warned. Older ...

"I don’t know how to make new friends at my age." "I feel isolated in my home." "I’m worried that I will lose all my work friends when I retire." Those are the type of comments I get in my side gig as ...

While loneliness is a year-round problem for older adults, it can be exacerbated during the holiday season as the air resounds with the sights, sounds and smells of celebration when many older adults ...

Older adults who experience chronic loneliness face a 56% higher risk of stroke than those who are not lonely, according to a new study from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Surgeon ...

Older people who smoke experience greater loneliness than those who do not, according to an abstract presented at the ...

According to a recent paper by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), more than one-third of adults aged 45 and older feel lonely, and nearly one-fourth of adults aged ...

Across the world, loneliness tends to increase after midlife. But for reasons that aren’t altogether clear, the United States is an outlier, with loneliness steadily decreasing from the middle to ...

A multi-agency initiative is being launched in Letterkenny, Co Donegal, today to support older people who may be feeling ...

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