FOUR police officers have gone beyond the call of duty to ease the pain of an elderly couple they heard crying from loneliness. After neighbours reported hysterical cries coming from the home of ...

Research shows that chronic social isolation can be as harmful as smoking 15 cigarettes a day, and perhaps no group is more ...

Don’t even talk to me about the Christmas advert for the Irish pub because I cry just thinking about ... it’s hard to fend off loneliness. It’s even harder to admit it.

By Erin Nolan In the months after her husband of 65 years died, Dorothy Elicati said she did nothing but cry ... to ease the burdens of loneliness among older residents. Though people can ...

It is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month and CBS News New York is highlighting the growth of the nonprofit Heart of Dinner.Heart of Dinner's missionIt was started back in 2020 by ...

“And so back home, I immediately can tell that people really were crying out ... with feeling lonely: an uptick in risk of heart disease, stroke and dementia for older adults as well as depression.

In some ways, older men living alone are disadvantaged ... "I fall into this lonely state, and I cry quite a bit," he told me. "I don't ignore those feelings. I let myself feel them.

Senior survey respondent in Oklahoma (female) Before the pandemic, 1 in 4 people older than 65 experienced social isolation, putting them at greater risk of loneliness, according to the U.S ...

Loneliness may act differently in males and females, with older females who are lonely more likely to be depressed and lose physical functionality. The rise of urbanization in China has reduced ...

That is, older people may feel less lonely if they are given opportunities to contribute meaningfully, for example, by caregiving or volunteering, and if they feel valued and respected by society ...

The lives of a bullied teenager struggling to survive his high school tormentors and a lonely elderly man wrestling with the loss of his wife and his own mortality collide after a tragic accident.