Health: lethal for elderly loneliness, twice as obesity - ANSA.it

(AP) – NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 17 – Loneliness can be deadly for the elderly, two times more ‘obesity and almost as much as the’ abject poverty ‘. A study by the University ‘of Chicago has highlighted the devastating effects of feeling isolated on the health of’ over 50 ‘, finding that most of them had only twice as likely to die during the six years in which they were kept under observation .

Compared to the average person of the study, 14 percent had solitary venture into more ‘premature death, twice the percentage of obese people, and a little less of the very poor (more than’ 19 per cent). Gia ‘above, several studies have shown a link between loneliness and a series of health problems, from hypertension to the lowering of the immune system, a higher risk of depression, stroke and heart attack. In a recent book, John Cacioppo, a psychologist at the University of Chicago, he compared the pain of loneliness to physical pain.

Cacioppo not ‘alone in thinking that’ going on in the world a “tsunami silver “because of the baby boomers reaching the age ‘of the board: speaking at the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Chicago, the psychologist has alerted seniors about to leave work a second thought times, or at least not embrace the American approach which often includes an uprooting from the usual and the transfer to the “second home”.

“We have a notion of the entire board of imagination,” said the psychologist “We think it means leaving friends and family, buying a home in Florida where the weather mild and live happily thereafter. Probably not ‘the best idea: they face a better retirement seniors who continue to interact with colleagues and friends. “

(ANSA).