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

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

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 ...

Loneliness has become a global health crisis, linked to depression, dementia, and early death. With over a billion people ...

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 ...

The Redcar and Cleveland Befriending Service trains volunteers who visit those who are isolated [BBC] ...

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 ...

Almost 43% of older adults living with dementia experience loneliness, according to a new systematic review and meta-analysis ...

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

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 ...