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According to a recent British study an alarming number of home bodied seniors go entire weeks without talking to another person as just part of their everyday lives. The study sheds some light on this sad but true effect of aging, noting that hundreds of thousands of elderly people often go multiple days without speaking …
University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines research published in the journal PLOS ONE suggests that those who live alone are more likely to have common mental disorders such as anxiety or depression. In modern society more and more people are choosing to live alone compared to past generations, due to decreasing marriage rates more people are also …