Managed Healthcare Executive: Defeating Loneliness

Managed Healthcare Executive: Defeating Loneliness

Health technology may help patients struggling with loneliness. Loneliness costs, and loneliness kills. It is well documented that loneliness—the discrepancy between the number and quality of relationships that one desires and those one actually has—dramatically...
Local company develops app to combat loneliness

Local company develops app to combat loneliness

When COVID-19 swept across the country earlier this year, it exacerbated an ongoing epidemic growing in recent years: isolation. Sociologists and public health experts have tracked a “loneliness epidemic” affecting the mental and physical health of a wide range of...
Feeling lonely? There’s an app for that!

Feeling lonely? There’s an app for that!

TUCSON (KVOA) – The COVID-19 Pandemic has not only brought on physical issues but emotional and mental problems as well. One-third of adults are chronically lonely. It is hard to identify members who are suffering – unlike diabetes, there is no “test” for loneliness....