Loneliness

We have written about peer review at ACSH; here is a slightly different take from Marginal Revolution.

Could we have been all wrong about the obesity epidemic?

For geriatric patients, an increasingly larger proportion of our population, loneliness is problematic. Friends and family die; you don’t necessarily get around as well – your life space contracts.

While there are many ways to define loneliness, the researchers, studying a cross-section of adults in the Netherlands, settled on this: 

“Solitude is not the same as loneliness. Solitude is a solitary boat floating in a sea of possible companions.” Robert Fulgham