About this episode
The episode discusses loneliness as a significant public policy issue and explores potential policy solutions to address it.
Loneliness affects more than one-third of adults, and as we age, experiencing loneliness can increase our risk of adverse emotional and physical health outcomes. Programmatic interventions to decrease loneliness and isolation are growing, but what policy solutions are there to tackle this problem? Daneen Sekoni from the Coalition to End Social Isolation and Loneliness joins ASA’s Leanne Clark-Shirley to frame loneliness as a policy issue and talk about about the importance of building a compr...
People in this episode
Host: Leanne Clark-Shirley
Guest: Daneen Sekoni
Topics covered
- loneliness
- public policy
- social isolation
- health outcomes
- programmatic interventions
Keywords
- loneliness
- public policy
- social isolation
- health risks
- interventions
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Coalition to End Social Isolation and Loneliness, American Society on Aging
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