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How Communities Around the World Are Connecting Social Isolation and Health (SSIR)
Current global estimates suggest that 1 in 4 older adults experience social isolation, and 5 to 15 percent of adolescents experience loneliness. Weak social connections cause a higher risk of early death; these are also linked to anxiety, depression, suicide, dementia, and the increased risk of cardiovascular disease and stroke. Weak social connections represent an equivalent health risk to smoking and obesity.
Beyond Borders: In-Depth Series
Good ideas have no borders. Yet, a 2023 survey by Candid found that 66 percent of US funders’ grantmaking is not informed or inspired by global ideas. Around the world—from Australia to Rwanda, from Bogota to New Zealand, and from Sweden to South Africa—countries have made progress tackling the same kind of problems the United States and other nations struggle with, ranging from maternal health to structural racism.
Fractured: Why Our Societies Are Coming Apart and How We Can Put Them Back Together Again John Yates, HarperCollins, Manchester, UK, 2021, 352 pp., hbk £20.00, ISBN 13: 9780008463960 | Ageing & Society | Cambridge Core
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If you were emperor or empress for a day, and you were blessed with superhuman -- but benevolent -- powers, what would you do to eradicate loneliness? In this, the final episode of "Is Anybody Out There?", listeners from aro… Why is that some of the world's most bustling and densely-populated cities are often the loneliest? In "Community Architecture," hosts Jeremy and Judy explore this paradox and discover that metropolises around the world were… Feeling lonely?
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A Biography of Loneliness: The History of an Emotion Fay Bound Alberti, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2019, 320 pp., hbk £20.00, ISBN 13: 978-0-19-881134-3 | Ageing & Society | Cambridge Core
Abstract An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided below. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content. Copyright COPYRIGHT: © The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press References Hide All Cacioppo, J (2008) Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company. Laing, O (2016) The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone. Edinburgh, UK: Canongate Books.
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