Entrepreneur Cindy Jordan Tackles Loneliness with New App

Entrepreneur Cindy Jordan Tackles Loneliness with New App

Cindy Jordan loves her iPad, rides a Peloton and develops healthcare technology for a living, but she doesn’t consider herself a techie. “I hire tech people, but I am a problem solver,” Jordan said. “When I was 21, I was a police officer in a suburb of Washington,...
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...