Top 5 Ways to Help Older People Deal With Social Isolation

Top 5 Ways to Help Older People Deal With Social Isolation
Ageing experts are saying that there is a real need for assistance to alleviate loneliness and isolation. Dmytro Zinkevych/Shutterstock
Jessie Zhang
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Ageing experts have shared ways to increase social connection and reduce loneliness among older people after recent research showed loneliness has become an epidemic in the U.S. and Australia, with one in three people affected and a third of all seniors now living alone.

A study from Stanford University published in the journal Aging found that loneliness ages a person even faster than smoking.
Jessie Zhang
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Jessie Zhang is a reporter based in Sydney, Australia, covering news on health and science.
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