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American research project studying loneliness in middle-aged and older adults in the US from 1996 to 2018

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Is the ‘loneliness epidemic’ real?

Professor Melody Ding is an epidemiologist from the University of Sydney. She's done loads of studies on this subject, one of which analysed loneliness in older adults in the US using more rigorously controlled survey data. So we use the data called Health and Retirement Study. It's from the US, particularly on the middle-aged and older population, generally 50 plus. And looking at this particular group from 1996 to 2018,