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In a poll of 2,037 people, Mind (a mental health charity) found that one in 10 millennials say they have no one to spend Christmas with, compared to one in 20 older people.

Not only the lonely this season

Singles are a lonely lot during the festive season, and we explore ways to tackle this need for company... and what not...

7 Dec 2018 12:28 AM IST

All 2.2 billion Facebook users will receive a notice on their feeds titled Protecting Your Information. It will have a link to information on which Facebook apps they use and what information they have shared with those apps. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Facebook use can make older adults feel less lonely: Study

Posting and commenting on social networking sites, such as Facebook, may help older adults feel more empowered and less...

2 May 2018 5:12 PM IST

Taking a picture every day encourages people to go out (Photo: AFP)

Research suggests loneliness can be reduced by posting a picture every...

In some cases people even said it helped them cope with a death or illness in the family.

1 May 2018 12:24 PM IST

Mostof them, especially the newly retired, in the 58-70 age groups, still are active and can be productive, given the right opportunities, spaces and, most importantly, an enabling and supportive environment.

Promoting well-being for everyone at all ages

Many elderly die every year due to falls at home, especially inside the toilets!

1 May 2018 6:50 AM IST

The analysis also adds that people with cardiovascular problems were far more likely to die early if they were isolated. (Photo: Pixabay)

Study says you can die of loneliness

Experts say social isolation could raise chance of a premature death by 50 per cent.

27 March 2018 4:39 PM IST

For patients of Alzheimers and dementia, memory implants and reactivation will be a life-changer, just as the ability to mute or erase memories will be for trauma victims. (Photo: Pixabay)

Alone but not lonely

Loneliness today is an epidemic with the joint family getting scattered and geographical mobility become inescapable.

15 Jun 2018 12:28 AM IST

Both men and women who felt lonely were three times more likely to report symptoms of anxiety and depression (Photo: Pixabay)

Heart patients may be at higher risk of early death due to loneliness

Feeling lonely was associated with poor outcomes in all patients regardless of their type of heart disease.

10 Jun 2018 5:45 PM IST

Loneliness is a feeling associated with our relationships with people while depression is a general sense of feeling about everything. (Photo: Pixabay)

Mystic Mantra: The loneliness and happiness

Today's scenario is that India is also on the path of becoming more and more affluent and less and happy.

7 Aug 2018 1:04 AM IST

Loneliness is a feeling associated with our relationships with people while depression is a general sense of feeling about everything. (Photo: Pixabay)

Landscape of loneliness

Urban loneliness is staring us deeper in the eye with every passing day.

5 Aug 2018 6:50 AM IST

Representational Image. (Photo: Pixabay)

Close father-daughter ties may help combat loneliness

Researchers noted that loneliness declined more quickly among girls who had a closer relationship with their fathers.

30 Aug 2018 12:55 PM IST

Rent a Boyfriend is a new app on the block that promises to cure depression. But is it trivialising mental issues?

Boyfriends on rent

Depression is not a condition that can be treated by this so-called app, which blatantly claims to cure it.

2 Sept 2018 12:53 AM IST

Experts say that the effect of feeling lonely is as devastating as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. Loneliness is so pervasive in todays world that doctors call it the loneliness epidemic .

Mystic Mantra: How to cure loneliness

It is an irony that in this overpopulated world people feel they have no connection with anybody.

24 Sept 2018 1:32 AM IST