Wanna go for dinner with a group of strangers?
And why it could brighten someone’s day
An EU-wide survey found in 2022 that loneliness was most prevalent in Ireland.
The creator of ‘Friend’ says that he doesn’t envision AI replacing human companionship.
Higher percentage
No substitute for physical presence, particularly for the touch and smell of human interaction
Every general practitioner has lonely elderly patients whose check-ups double as social events. They have few other occasions for interacting with people. Why not enlist the healthcare system in identifying people who are at highest risk for social isolation or loneliness? According to a major report from the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, […]
Chronic loneliness is an increasing concern, and apparently not just among the elderly and social-media crazed millennials. A recently released YouGov survey finds that almost one in five men in the UK say that they have no close friends. The findings also show that men generally lead more solitary lives than women, who appear to be better at […]
The elderly are an untapped resource – and so are the young.