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Intergenerational Housing Could Help Older Adults Combat Loneliness

Care communities that blend senior living with college campuses and daycare centers offer an alternative for a more social generation of retirees.

A new loneliness cure: Apps that match you with strangers for a meal

Several services are trying to help isolated remote workers and others find offline friends.

The surprising truth about loneliness in America

Rather than point to certain populations as explicitly lonely, understanding what increases someone’s risk for loneliness can help address it on a population level.

Can Cohousing Solve the Housing Crisis and Loneliness Epidemic?

This model is called cohousing: Residents own their private units, but share extensive common spaces. They commit to regular community activities, like meals, and manage the building together.

How Modern America Is Optimized for Loneliness, Misery and Poor Health – Carcatecture is Killing Us.

Daily, the average American spends an hour driving according to AAA, 25 minutes socializing and communicating, 2.5 hours watching TV, and 16 minutes exercising, according to the BLS.

‘People are suffering alone’: Bay Area county declares loneliness crisis – First in Nation

San Mateo County has become the first in the nation to declare loneliness a public health crisis, according to a county media advisory, through a resolution that its board of supervisors passed Tuesday.

The Long and Persistent History of Loneliness in America

“American cities nurture loneliness,” the magazine Yellow Scene reported recently, “by hyper-focusing on cars to the detriment of alternative transportation and neglecting the creation of quality public spaces.”

Loneliness Is a Policy Problem. A Big One. What Is Your Community Doing? — City Club Missoula – Monday, November 13, 2023

Lack of human connection is bad for your health. Responding to an advisory from the U.S. Surgeon General that a loneliness epidemic is affecting half of all Americans, San Antonio has been pushing out resources to help build bonds between community members.

‘Friends’ and ‘Seinfeld’ knew the cure for loneliness

In her 20s, Sara Hoy made close friends in her Central Pennsylvania hometown through an organization called Third Place. The group, named after what sociologists call any social setting that’s not home (the first place) or work (the second), was led by a local church leader and sought to help young professionals build community.

New movie ‘Montana Story’ captures the state’s landscape of loneliness

Choosing to shoot in Ringling feels integral to the idea of what “Montana Story” is trying to do. Ringling isn’t the soaring mountains of Glacier or the crystalline waters of the Blackfoot. It’s a small, middle-of-nowhere town. Ringling is one of those places people like to point to as the “real Montana,” a tiny speck of civilization dominated by the enormity of the landscape all around.