Archive for month: September, 2022

60% of Americans currently report experiencing painful loneliness.  Hope & A Future’s intergenerational approach to living offers a solution.  We know that loneliness comes at great cost to society.  Loneliness negatively affects mental and physical health in young and old.  Lonely children do not learn to their capacity and when left unchecked loneliness affects the neurologic development of children in ways that lead to poor impulse control and behavior problems.  Loneliness is also often a driver with addiction behaviors. Gangs and human traffickers target lonely young people. Lonely retirees are known to experience accelerated mental and physical decline. In...