There’s an epidemic of loneliness that is impacting many people in the world. In the United States, up to 30% of adults say they have experienced feelings of loneliness at least once a week, according ...

Broken bonds and burned bridges can’t be mended by imaginary networks of relationships. I don’t know how to say, ‘I’m lonely,’ without sounding like I’m saying, ‘I’m a loser,’” a middle-aged man said ...

A profound shift is occurring in the human heart — a widening disconnection that is as much a spiritual wound as a social crisis. Beyond the public health warnings of loneliness lies a deeper question ...

In 2023, the U.S. Surgeon General declared a public health crisis, issuing an advisory regarding the epidemic of loneliness and isolation. The American Psychiatric Association’s Healthy Minds Monthly ...

Loneliness, a condition linked to serious mental and physical health risks, remains in the spotlight nearly two years after former U.S. surgeon general Vivek Murthy declared it a public health ...

South Korea, recently designated as a “super-aged” society, faces a two-pronged challenge – bridging the generational gap due to aging, and implementing integrated measures to arrest population ...

Northwell Health partnered with Stacker to analyze the 2023 Surgeon General's Advisory on the "epidemic of loneliness and isolation" to investigate trends in American social connection. - Den ...