Loneliness

Community Plate seeks to bring people together over shared potluck suppers of classic casseroles. Marsden Shetterly/for NPR hide caption toggle…

Few people anticipate the risk of loneliness when retiring abroad. Understandably, older Americans planning a happy retirement in idyllic locations…

Many people dream of retiring to a warmer, less expensive country. But retirees who move abroad may be at greater…

UTA’s Wang notes that while she hasn’t assessed whether scammers are using generative AI to produce romance scam scripts, she…

Taking stock of your life can be simpler when you’re half a world away from home. For Tove Jansson, arguably…

You can feel lonely in an open-plan office getty Anyone who’s spent large amounts of time working alone probably knows…

No one would blame you for thinking that we’re in the midst of an unprecedented global loneliness emergency. The United…

Loneliness is more likely to cause depression if one keeps ruminating on how lonely they are. This is the essence…

Interactions with friends and family may keep us healthy because they boost our immune system and reduce our risk of…

Robert Christoffel, left, and Werner Hein at a Stammtisch in Washington, D.C., earlier this month. Laurel Wamsley/NPR hide caption toggle…