The loneliness epidemic: How social isolation can damage our minds and bodies
saying it can lead to dementia, heart disease, stroke and even premature death.
“He was in a nursing home and he’d fully recovered from COVID. I couldn’t understand why he had called an ambulance to come to the hospital,” Lee said.How virtual reality technology is being used to combat loneliness among long term care home residents After this encounter, Lee said he started to diagnose patients who came into the emergency room differently.
“It’s highly stigmatized as well. People are ashamed of being lonely. People feel that it’s their fault if they don’t have people in their life,” Lee added.One of the ways loneliness and isolation affect physical and mental health is by “altering people’s brains that contribute to disconnection,” Jake Ernst, a social worker and clinical director of Straight Up Health in Toronto, said.
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