Chronic loneliness isn’t just emotionally painful — research shows it can increase the risk of premature death as much as heavy smoking, making social isolation one of America’s most overlooked ...

In a 6-year study of 10,000 older adults, loneliness was tied to lower memory scores at baseline — but not to a faster rate of decline over time.

Social isolation has a number of negative effects on mental and physical health. Therapists share the best ways to feel less ...

People reporting a high level of loneliness, but not those with social isolation, had elevated risk for developing valvular ...

A spritz of the so-called “love hormone” might be the key to easing persistent feelings of loneliness. In a 2014 study, a team of European and Israeli researchers tested whether oxytocin, the hormone ...

Loneliness and social isolation may hurt the heart both literally and figuratively, according to an ever-expanding body of ...

Former U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, in a Sunday interview, warned about the adverse effects of chronic loneliness, which could lead to a shorter lifespan. Murthy, on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” told ...

New interventions are needed to support the social world of assisted living residents to promote a sense of belonging, according to the authors of a newly published study that found that loneliness is ...

Chronic loneliness is not only harmful to mental health but also to physical health. It has some other surprising consequences. We all need time alone, those moments to recharge, whether a few hours a ...

If the office is the place where friendships most often arise, people who work remotely, especially freelancers, are the most ...

In Houston, Texas, leaders have come together to study how lonely residents feel, in an effort to turn data into a baseline ...