Tackling holiday loneliness
November 20, 2024
November 20, 2024
EVANSTON, Illinois, Nov. 20 -- Northwestern University issued the following news release:
CHICAGO - As the holiday season approaches, it's a time many associate with joy and togetherness. Yet for millions, it's a period marked by loneliness.
A Northwestern Medicine study last spring found loneliness in adulthood follows a U-shaped pattern: it's higher in younger and older adulthood, and lowest during middle adulthood. Those feelings can be exacerbated around the holiday . . .
CHICAGO - As the holiday season approaches, it's a time many associate with joy and togetherness. Yet for millions, it's a period marked by loneliness.
A Northwestern Medicine study last spring found loneliness in adulthood follows a U-shaped pattern: it's higher in younger and older adulthood, and lowest during middle adulthood. Those feelings can be exacerbated around the holiday . . .