Sainsbury’s cafés offered elderly people and young families a place to mingle over a hot cuppa. What to do now?

Hard-wired for social connection, humans traditionally have lived in multi-generational groups in which older people, after raising their children and helping with grandchildren, would be cared for by ...

Coupled with the physical limitations and health issues that often prevent older people from getting out, this situation is a recipe for isolation, which can lead to loneliness. In turn ...

Rose Ayling-Ellis was seen getting emotional during her BBC documentary Old Hands New Tricks as she opened up on the impact ...

A new study finds that loneliness may increase certain proteins in the brain that increase your risk for disease and death.

A bidirectional relationship exists between having a sense of meaning in life and behavioral health issues such as anxiety, ...

Strictly Come Dancing champion Rose Ayling-Ellis is on a mission to teach sign language to a retirement community in ...

A service befriending lonely elderly people has been funded for another year. The Redcar and Cleveland Befriending Service trains volunteers who visit isolated people and help them re-establish ...

The Redcar and Cleveland Befriending Service trains volunteers who visit those who are isolated A service befriending lonely elderly people has been funded for another year. The Redcar and ...

Age UK North Yorkshire & Darlington is urging the community to 'lend a hand' to help combat loneliness and stress among older ...