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Episode: Seniors gather at restaurants for meals in a program designed to feed social lives, end loneliness
Description: A program that provides meals to seniors in New Hampshire is also helping them combat the biggest risk to their long-term health β loneliness.
The Dine Out Program is designed to get people 60 years and older out of their homes to go eat in participating restaurants and socialize. The initiative, funded under the federal Older Americans Act Nutrition Program, state resources and donations, seeks to address an insidious isolation crisis.
The U.S. surgeon general warned in May that widespread loneliness in the U.S. poses health risks as deadly as smoking up to 15 cigarettes daily. Research shows that Americans, who ha...