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100 people die of loneliness-related causes every hour, WHO says
- The World Health Organisation reports that 871,000 people die globally each year from loneliness, highlighting a serious global issue.
- According to the WHO, one in six individuals experiences loneliness, which may lead to physical illness.
- Lonely teenagers are 22 percent more likely to achieve lower grades than their peers, while lonely adults face challenges in job retention.
- Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus noted the paradox of increased connectivity leading to more isolation and loneliness.
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Loneliness is one of the challenges of increasing importance faced by Western societies in this twenty-first century. The increase in life expectancy, new ways of living together, an organization different from the use of time or changes in family and society models offer us a complex and diverse reality, in which loneliness appears as an increasingly common life experience. Among the different groups affected by the increase in loneliness stand…
AI chatbots are supposed to ease loneliness – but they could do the exact opposite.
One in six people in the world suffers from loneliness and this condition has a strong impact on physical and mental health. 871,000 people die every year in the world, equal to about 100 per hour. (ANSA)
Intergenerational continuity of loneliness and potential mechanisms: Young Finns Multigenerational Study
Evidence on the intergenerational continuity of loneliness and on potential mechanisms that connect loneliness across successive generations is limited. We examined the association between loneliness of (G0) parents (859 mothers and 570 fathers, mean age 74 years) and their children (G1) (433 sons and 558 daughters, mean age 47 years) producing 991 parent–offspring pairs and tested whether these associations were mediated through subjective soci…
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