The Manila Times

Loneliness now a social problem, as communitie­s change social scale

- BY JUAN T. GATBONTON

“GLOBALIZAT­ION - tional markets, stimulated growth and lifted millions out of poverty. But the poignant among these is the way glo- health concern.

national health services. In Britain and the United States, roughly one in three persons older than 65 lives alone; and in the US, half of those older than 85 live alone.

Suicides in America are at a 30-year statistica­l high, particular­ly for women and

One alone

Through the generation­s,

House-husbands

Changing community

Community in America

New virtues for old

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