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 ...

“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.

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 ...

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.

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

When I checked, she said she was crying because she missed ... That made me feel even worse." Many elderly Vietnamese living overseas struggle with loneliness. Language barriers and the loss ...

The video, from Charlie's Bar in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, tells the tale of a lonely older gentleman who ... No why has this made me cry,' one penned. ' ...

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 ...

The population here reflects the aging society outside, and the pervasive problem of loneliness that guards say is so acute for some elderly prisoners that they’d prefer to stay incarcerated.