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Loneliness is becoming an epidemic for people of all ages. To kick off 2025, Here & Now is looking at how people can forge connections in this era of loneliness. Part 1. Surgeon general on ...

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In 2023, the World Health Organization declared loneliness a pressing public-health concern, and then-President Joe Biden’s surgeon general, Vivek Murthy, issued an advisory warning about an “epidemic ...

Employers are mandating return-to-office policies, yet simply working in person is unlikely to foster true connections to counter loneliness. Here are tested solutions that work.

Many of us float through ... tool to combat the growing loneliness epidemic among American adults, which exploded during the pandemic and still persists. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy speaks ...

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