This one is not a list of things to do. Loneliness, redundancy and caring for someone are not problems of personal effort, and the widely quoted figures about them are mostly wrong in the alarming direction.
Eight findings. Tick the ones you already knew.Sources: Holt-Lunstad J, Smith TB, Layton JB, PLoS Medicine 2010; Wang F et al., Nature Human Behaviour 2023; Eliason M and Storrie D, Journal of Human Resources 2009; O’Reilly D et al., International Journal of Epidemiology 2015; Perkins M et al. 2013. Full discussion in loneliness, job loss and family carers.
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Averages are not predictions. Where a figure here comes from a study, it describes what happened to a group of people on average. It does not say what will happen to you. An average is the right tool for deciding what to change and the wrong tool for deciding what is going to happen.
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