The Office of the US Government Medical director announced on May 2nd that there was a report on the loneliness crisis on May 2, announcing that loneliness in the United States has become a "epidemic".The report pointed out that about half of Americans feel lonely.Studies have shown that people who lack social connections are 26%higher than those who have sufficient social connection than society.Lack of social connections may also increase the risk of various diseases, including heart disease, stroke, depression, diabetes, etc.Although there is no age limit for loneliness, the elderly seem to be more likely to be "infected". For a young child like Singapore and is about to become super -aging, it is particularly important and planned.
Human beings are group animals. No one is an islands in the 16th century British metaphysics poet John Don.However, the development process of modern civilization starting from the beginning of the industrial revolution has a subversion of the traditional social structure and value system, so that the rural stable interpersonal relationships have begun to loosen with the large number of people in the city.pressure.The living environment where strangers gather in cities can easily make people fall into a sense of loneliness.This phenomenon has become more significant with the popularity of technology, especially mobile Internet technology and smartphones.
Lonely epidemic disease is not limited to elderly people with inconvenient actions and reduced social activities; smartphones may play a role in helping the flames.The report shows that in recent decades, the American people have become more and more lonely, especially groups 15 to 24.In 2020, the American people meet with friends for 20 minutes every day, and the number 20 years ago was 60 minutes.All ages have expressed less friends and less interpersonal communication.The report quotes a study results that people who use social media for two or longer people every day feel the possibility of loneliness, which is more than twice that people who use social media less than 30 minutes a day.
Merysi, a US government medical director, said in a report that loneliness "must be listed as a priority of public health."He called on all walks of life to attach importance to a health crisis caused by loneliness.Mercy, who returned to the 21st as the 21st medical director, issued a similar warning as early as the 19th director's position in 2017.He described loneliness as the latest epidemic that threatened American public health.At the end of 2019, the global crown disease, which outbreaking, has led to more people to keep their families and block normal interpersonal communication. I am afraid that further exacerbate the serious loneliness.
Because of more importance to personal rights such as the United States and Europe, highlighting the value system of individualism may easily lead to people's sense of loneliness.However, in East Asian society that attaches importance to groups and interpersonal relationships, lonely epidemic is expressed in another form because of declining childization and ultra -aging aging.In Japan with severe aging, an average of about 30,000 elderly people "lonely death" at home each year, and the society has produced a "special cleanup" industry, and is a corpse after the death of a deadly family who has no relatives for many days.
Similar phenomena have also begun to appear locally.As of April this year, the media has reported news about the death of seven residents' homes.A study by Duke -National University of Medicine in 2021 found that loneliness will directly affect the life of the elderly. Those who are over 60 years old and feel lonely.Year.In addition, the sense of loneliness will increase with age. Among people at the age of 80 and above, 40%feel that they are lonely, and the ratio is 32%higher than that of 60 to 69 years old.
The residents are not all unreasonable, but they do not live with their families for various reasons, or they lack them with them.In the future, such problems may be more serious.Because more and more people are not married, or have no children after marriage.Whatever the reason, this group that lacks family ethics is bound to face the threat of living alone or even lonely at home.Encouraging fertility to this group is obviously too late. One of the methods to relieve the problem may be to extend the retirement age and keep yourself active social life. It is also important to cultivate the interest and hobbies that can increase interpersonal interaction communication as early as possible.Local men generally lag behind women in this regard.Like retired financial planning, it has accumulated social relationship capital, or a single child -free group plan and investment.
At a wider social level, people may have to re -examine the importance and necessity of traditional family ethics, and spend more time and energy walking between relatives and friends.This can not only enrich your daily emotional life, maintain your physical and mental health, but also be used as a insurance policy to avoid loneliness.
