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Partnering with Community Organizations to Address Older Adult Loneliness
Community-based organizations (CBOs) are well-positioned to provide effective programs that reduce loneliness, enhance social connection, and build social cohesion skills and confidence. Unfortunately, CBOs are often constrained by lack of suitable program content, skilled facilitators, and the ability to evaluate program outcomes to demonstrate benefit. This article describes an approach to partnering with CBOs to address loneliness that offers innovative program content, including creative arts expression, mindfulness, and social-emotional learning activities—all available for streaming or download from a digital platform, efficiently and cost-effectively.
COVID-19: Now is the Time for Primary Care to Address Loneliness
The COVID-19 Pandemic: Now is the Time for Primary Care to Address Loneliness By Jeremy Nobel, MD, MPH as published in in the blog for: With more than 6 million diagnosed cases and nearly 200,000 deaths in the United States, the novel coronavirus is our nation’s most...
UnLonely on the Today Show
June 5, 2020 It's not every day the Today Show comes knocking, so you can imagine the thrill when reporter Kate Snow and producer Jared Crawford contacted us for their series on loneliness. They did a terrific job of laying out the why this has become one of today's...
Justice and Equality
Recent events in Minneapolis and around the country have stripped bare the grim wounds and scars created by centuries of anti-Black violence, discrimination, and marginalization. We join much of the country in being saddened, outraged, and heart-broken by current...
UnLonely Playlist: Alonzo
For this playlist, we tapped a good friend of the UnLonely Project and a powerful performer himself, Alonzo. With his recent video, "Save Me from Myself," he shares his story of making his way through dark times in his life. Here's what he told us about curating this...
UnLonely in the Field: Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Returning to his alma mater, Foundation for Art & Healing (FAH) Founder & President Dr. Jeremy Nobel was an honored guest speaker this November at a student-organized evening on “Creativity, Connection & Health” at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public...
UnLonely in the Field: Cafritz Arts and Health Event
Founder and director of the Foundation for Art & Healing (FAH), Jeremy Nobel, MD, MPH keynoted an event in Washington DC entitled Arts and Health: The Loneliness Epidemic. The November 14, 2019 program, which was co-sponsored by FAH, The Morris and Gwendolyn...
Being UnLonely: Workplace Burnout and Loneliness. What You Need to Know.
Workplace Burnout and Loneliness: What You Need to Know Understanding the reciprocal relationship between loneliness and burnout. By Jeremy Nobel, MD, MPHAs published on PsychologyToday.com Loneliness at work is often affected by other aspects of an employee’s daily...
Listen: UnLonely Playlist 6
Fall is in the air and the holidays won’t be far behind. It’s a time for some of us that can stir up feelings of loneliness. Which is why we put out the call to share your favorite songs that seem to help when you get into those places. Here are a few of the comments...
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