Women are often more likely to underreport their feelings of loneliness, especially when stigma is involved. When a woman ...

Did you know that social isolation and loneliness can be more harmful to your health than smoking 15 cigarettes a day? As we ...

Loneliness and social isolation among community-dwelling older adults are complex issues with the ability to affect physical, mental and social well-being. To support older adults, approaches must ...

During holiday visits, many adult children notice subtle — and sometimes not-so-subtle — changes in their aging parents. From ...

We've all felt lonely at some point in our lives, whether during the COVID-19 pandemic, an illness, or after losing a family member. People can even feel lonely even when surrounded by others. In 2023 ...

Loneliness/social isolation isn’t just a transient emotion or situation, it’s turned into a global crisis with serious public health consequences. In 2023, then–US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD, ...

If loneliness results in the same risk of dying early as smoking up to 15 cigarettes a day, could the strategies that greatly ...

In a recent study published in JAMA Network Open, researchers evaluated the relationship between social isolation and health outcomes such as cognitive and physical function decline, cardiovascular ...

Social isolation significantly increases the risk of mortality in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), highlighting the need for targeted interventions to address this issue.