On October 11th 2022, the JRC organised a Roundtable with experts to discuss effective actions to address loneliness. The objectives of the Roundtable were to: a) present the European Commission’s...
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Loneliness in the European Union Knowledge service
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The report provides an overview of the empirical evidence on the effectiveness of interventions tackling loneliness by summarizing available systematic reviews and meta-analyses on this topic. Despite the high relevance, research on the effectiveness...
Objective: The purpose of the study is to examine the prevalence of loneliness in Europe in 2016 and during the first months – April-July 2020 – of the COVID-19 pandemic, and to assess whether the risk...
The debate on a shorter working time is back in several EU countries. While the debate increasingly mentions well-being and work-life balance among the reasons to reduce working time...
On May 12th 2022, the JRC organised an online seminar to bring together academics, practitioners and policy-makers to discuss interventions to reduce loneliness among youth. The objectives of the seminar...
The link between loneliness and health has been extensively documented in scientific literature. Increasingly, loneliness is considered a public health problem and concern has amplified during...
Trends in Inequality of Opportunity in health over the life-cycle: the role of early-life conditions
This paper explores the evolution of inequality of opportunity in the prevalence of chronic diseases along the life cycle and across different birth cohorts for individuals aged 50 or older and residing...
This policy brief presents results on 15-year-olds loneliness feelings and discusses three questions: a) Why is loneliness of children important? b) Who is lonely? c) What...
Increasing prevalence of social media use in modern societies, where a large part of the population is feeling lonely, has led to speculations regarding the possible links between...
This policy brief provides cross-country evidence on the incidence of loneliness among older adults (50+) in the EU and an analysis of the risk factors for loneliness for this group of individuals. It also...