Small-town elders show how friendship, routine, movement and community ties may help people live longer and healthier lives.

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Chronicling your humdrum, solitary life has become an online trend. It’s certainly perplexing. Is it also empowering?

Among the complex issues that contribute to suicide, loneliness is a big one. Now, there’s a growing push to address ...

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A huge European study found that lonely older adults tend to have weaker memory, but they do not lose memory faster over time ...

Executive loneliness is widespread, largely unspoken and entirely solvable. Here are five strategies the best leaders use to ...

Most people experience periods of loneliness, isolation or solitude in their lives. But these are different things, and the proportion of people feeling lonely is stable over time. So why do we keep ...

I went to see the finale of The Amazing Digital Circus in a theater, which is already a strange sentence.This is a show that ...

Loneliness in later life begins when contact remains, but dignity, purpose, and the feeling of being needed quietly disappear.

Scientists have long known that loneliness is emotionally painful and can lead to psychiatric disorders like depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, and even hallucinatory delirium. But only recently have ...

Loneliness is a profound problem at the end of life, creating an intersection between end-of-life care and social isolation that senior living operators must address, authors of a new study report ...