Friends Move, Partners Pass: How Older Adults Can Break the Loneliness Loop

Why meaningful connection matters for aging—and how to build it. 
Friends Move, Partners Pass: How Older Adults Can Break the Loneliness Loop
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Your grandparents’ social calendars might be better predictors of their lifespans than their cholesterol levels.

A growing body of research suggests that chronic loneliness doesn’t just feel bad—it kills, triggering the same inflammatory cascades as chronic disease and increasing the risk that a first heart attack will be fatal. Beyond sentimental thinking, it’s biology.

Sarah Campise Hallier
Sarah Campise Hallier
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Sarah Campise Hallier, M.A. in administrative leadership, is a staff writer for A Voice for Choice Advocacy and associate editor at Appetito Magazine. Raised on organic vegetables from her mother’s backyard garden, she brings a lifelong interest in clean living to stories on nutrition, environment, and lifestyle.