Reach Out and End Loneliness in Your Community
Loneliness can be defined as a subjective, unwelcome feeling of lack or loss of companionship. It happens when we have a mismatch between the quantity and quality of social relationships that we have, and those that we want (Perlman and Peplau, 1981). There are different types of loneliness: Emotional loneliness is felt when we miss…