Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The loneliness epidemic is an ongoing trend of loneliness and social isolation experienced by people across the globe. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The uptick may have begun in the 2010s and was exacerbated by the isolating effects of social distancing , stay-at-home orders , and deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic .
The problem of loneliness has gained national attention over the past decade as the number of related issues increased – such as young people who withdraw from the world and spend their days ...
Loneliness has been linked with depression, and is thus a risk factor for suicide. [90] A study based on more than 4,000 adults aged over 50 in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA), looked at loneliness. Nearly one in five of those who reported being lonely had developed signs of depression within a year.
Like Hostler, 38-year-old Quincy Winston struggled to make new friends after relocating to Phoenix with his wife, Latoya, in 2015. However, a heartfelt conversation with his wife sparked an idea.
The study authors had 12,161 adults 50 and older who had never had a stroke share information about their loneliness. Four years later, the 8,936 people still participating in the study answered ...
The data is from the most recent year available from the World Bank API. [1] [2] [3] As differences in price levels across the world evolve, the global poverty line has to be periodically updated to reflect these changes. The World Bank updated the global poverty lines in September 2022.
Still, even as we celebrate the scale and speed of this change, the rates of depression, loneliness and substance abuse in the gay community remain stuck in the same place they’ve been for decades. Gay people are now, depending on the study, between 2 and 10 times more likely than straight people to take their own lives.
So his team looked at information from surveys of 53,000 adults in the U.S. and 13 European countries, focusing on the answers from individuals age 40 to 65. ... says of the large differences in ...