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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. [1] [3]
Every year, thousands of South Koreans – mostly middle-aged men – die quietly and alone, cut off from their family and friends. ... A loneliness epidemic is spreading worldwide. Seoul is ...
Loneliness has been linked with depression, and is thus a risk factor for suicide. [89] 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.
Compared to just one year ago, people of all ages are going to bed earlier and sleeping more. The average bedtime has been bumped from 10:19 last year to 10:09 these days, per data from Sleep Number .
Our World in Data (OWID) is a scientific online publication that focuses on large global problems such as poverty, disease, hunger, climate change, war, existential risks, and inequality. It is a project of the Global Change Data Lab, a registered charity in England and Wales, [ 3 ] and was founded by Max Roser , a social historian and ...
The scale is widely used in studies and surveys on loneliness. A 1992 study estimated the UCLA Loneliness Scale had been used in an estimated 80% of all empirical studies on loneliness. [7] A 2001 metastudy looking at 149 studies of loneliness, found that the UCLA scale was used in 27% of the studies; this was far more than for any other formal ...
That’s why, two years ago, his 18-year-old nephew James showed up trembling at his doorstep. He sat Halkitis and his husband down on the couch and announced he was gay. “We told him, ‘Congratulations, your membership card and welcome package are in the other room,’” Halkitis remembers. “But he was too nervous to get the joke.”