Older people who report high levels of loneliness also suffer more disabilities and earlier deaths, a new report finds. Read More...
The Healing Stories of Rachel Naomi Remen I keep coming back to the stories of Rachel Naomi Remen, and this video of one of her lectures reminds me what I value in her work. While advocates of the new medicine have been revolutionizing the paradigm of...
Loneliness is a known risk factor for heart disease and has also been linked to high blood pressure, poor quality sleep, dementia and other health problems. But what is the best way of helping people to overcome it? Researchers from the University of...
British society is becoming increasingly lonely according to a new report - The Lonely Society? - published by the Mental Health Foundation. The report found that 1 in 10 Britons often feel isolated and half think that people are getting lonelier in general...
People who feel lonely spread that feeling to others William Harms - University of Chicago Loneliness, like a bad cold, can spread among groups of people, research at the University of Chicago, the University of California-San Diego and Harvard shows...
Where has the world gone to Since I reached the age of 65? Where are the friends and followers Who crowded around those early years; Those few, a very few, too few, still alive? I look back longingly at cold coals, the fire That once burned in me with...