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“Addressing the crisis of loneliness and isolation is one of our generation’s greatest challenges”
Smaller families, increasing divorce rates and single parenthood have had isolating effects on Gen Z
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, […]
Friendships between the young and old are a win/win solution to both a growing loneliness epidemic and greater numbers of time-poor working parents. The elderly often have under-utilised time which they are happy to give, and parents and young people are often in need of their support and love. In fact, research shows that the two loneliest groups in society are the […]