Loneliness Epidemic Among Older and Younger Australians

Loneliness Epidemic Among Older and Younger Australians
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Younger and older Australians are disproportionately lonely and face increasingly poor health and higher mortality.

Loneliness is of epidemic proportions with at least one in three Australians reporting the experience, a parliamentary inquiry heard on Nov. 15.