lundi 20 juin 2016

Older people are under threat from loneliness

Feeling isolated is not only soul destryong, it’s also a risk factor for early death

Macbeth may have spoken of “that which should accompany old age/ As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends” but here and now old people are more likely to be bitterly lonely, according to a paper by Marcus Rand of the Campaign to End Loneliness. It seems that about one in 10 of people over 65 feels chronically lonely all or most of the time.

A lot of this is due to things we think of as benefits: easy transport so people have no need to go on living where they grew up and maybe elders in the family still live; and the ability to make arrangements online, using digital skills which older people may not have.

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from Health & wellbeing | The Guardian http://ift.tt/28IB4IX
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