News in Review Loneliness: The New Silent Killer
News in Review Loneliness: The New Silent Killer
More people are lonely than ever before. Studies show that one in five Canadians identify as being lonely. Loneliness is more than a feeling of occasional solitude – it’s a prolonged feeling of perceived isolation. While long seen as being bad for mental health, loneliness is now recognized as being physically harmful too. It's being called the silent killer – considered by some experts as being more harmful than smoking 15 cigarettes a day. In fact, loneliness is now linked to heart disease, depression, obesity and other life-threatening conditions. So why in our highly connected world are we so lonely? And what can we do about it?
- 2019
- 00:19:05
- 13-14
- Added on: 04/09/2019
Metadata
- Edition
- April 2019
- Subjects
- Loneliness [LCSH] Loneliness in children [LCSH] Belonging (Social psychology) [LCSH] Interpersonal relations [LCSH] Older people -- Psychology [LCSH] Social isolation [LCSH] Social sciences [LCSH] Psychology [LCSH] Health education [LCSH] Health services administration [LCSH] Mental health [LCSH]
- Team
- Michael Serapio (Host), Ioanna Roumeliotis (Journalist), Thomas Daigle (Journalist)
- Closed captioning
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- MARC Record
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Teacher Guide(s)
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NIR-19-04 - PDF - Loneliness: The New Silent Killer
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NIR-19-04 - PPT - Loneliness: The New Silent Killer
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