The team at CARE in collaboration with Nihon University has—for the first time—categorically quantified the impact of loneliness on life and health expectancy in older adults.

It is found that lonely older adults can expect to live a shorter life than their peers who don’t perceive themselves as lonely.

Read more in this issue of MEDICUS https://www.duke-nus.edu.sg/.../loneliness-in-older-adults