For decades, work hands people a ready-made social life. There are meetings, lunch breaks, hallway chats and shared deadlines ...

A systematic review of 24 controlled studies finds that physical activity interventions in older adults show inconsistent ...

While loneliness is a year-round problem for older adults, it can be exacerbated during the holiday season as the air resounds with the sights, sounds and smells of celebration when many older adults ...

Research shows that chronic social isolation can be as harmful as smoking 15 cigarettes a day, and perhaps no group is more at risk than the elderly. In response to this health crisis, Kennesaw State ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Looking to make more social connections as an older adult? Here's what an aging expert recommends. (Getty Images) (MoMo ...

Carol Norris, 83 and from Darlington, started using the charity a year ago and said she would "probably rot at home and die of loneliness" if it closed. Chief executive Fay Scullion said the charity ...

A recent study published in the journal BMC Public Health determines the impact of loneliness on healthy life expectancy (HLE) and identifies ways to improve subjective well-being and health in a ...

Across the world, loneliness tends to increase after midlife. But for reasons that aren’t altogether clear, the United States is an outlier, with loneliness steadily decreasing from the middle to ...

Despite our hopes for technological ways to bridge connections between older adults and social partners, phone and digital contact cannot alleviate loneliness in the same way. Photo-Illustration: ...

Older adults are at increased risk of complications from COVID-19. Many government and health-care leaders recommend that older adults reduce contact with other persons. In the short-run, this advice ...

At a moment when protective measures such as “shelter-in-place” and “self-quarantine” have become commonplace in many of the world’s major cities, a newly published study on loneliness sheds light on ...

India's cities are changing rapidly. Modern lifestyles, smaller families and increasing migration for education and employment have transformed the way people live and interact. While urban areas ...