Despite many of the great benefits of our modern information-age society, you may have heard that we are experiencing an epidemic of loneliness.
As quarantine and social distancing radically change our lives, the COVID-19 pandemic only threatens to make this loneliness epidemic worse.
Loneliness is considered to be a particular issue for older people. Yet these same people are at the highest risk from COVID-19 and are currently advised to self-isolate.
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