A new global report from the World Health Organization (WHO) Commission on Social Connection reveals that one in six people ...

Hearing loss combined with the feelings of loneliness accelerates cognitive decline, leading to dementia in older adults, ...

A World Health Organization (WHO) report has linked loneliness to over 100 deaths every hour, totalling more than 871,000 ...

Men and women are about equally likely to say they are lonely, though teenage girls report higher loneliness levels than ...

Isolation, communication difficulties, reduced alertness — hearing impairment or loss is a real challenge in daily life. Over time, it can also become a risk factor for cognitive decline. A team from ...

Social health, our ability to form and maintain meaningful human connections, is just as essential to our well-being as physical and mental health.

Nearly 17 per cent or one in six people worldwide is affected by loneliness, and the condition was linked to an estimated 100 deaths every hour -- more than 8,71,000 deaths annually between 2014 and ...

When parents sit down with me and ask 'how do we get her off the phone?', the question I have for them is 'if she wasn’t on ...