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Loneliness and social isolation are at crisis levels. One hospital is doing something about it

If you or someone you know is in crisis, please call, text or chat with the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988, or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741. Gladys Tandy, 71, was in a ...
Medical Xpress

National study finds loneliness and isolation are back to pre-pandemic levels, but still high, for older adults

Loneliness and isolation among older Americans have mostly returned to pre-pandemic rates, but that still means more than one third of people age 50 to 80 feel lonely, and nearly as many feel isolated ...
Medicine Buffalo

Pandemic brings new level of isolation, loneliness to nursing home patients, UB study finds

A new study by researchers from the School of Nursing has found that the COVID-19 pandemic brought a new level of isolation and loneliness to nursing home residents, leaving them with a palpable sense ...
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Loneliness and isolation: Back to pre-pandemic levels, but still high, for older adults

Trends in percentage of people age 50 to 80 who reported feeling isolated from others some of the time or often, between 2018 and 2024. Data from the National Poll on Healthy Aging. Loneliness and ...