Want to live longer, happier? Cultivate social connections (Wired.com)

How are you coping with the pandemic of loneliness?

https://www.wired.com/story/want-to-live-longer-healthier-and-happier-cultivate-your-social-connections-wired-health-kasley-killam/

For me, as the world accelerates, I am pulled more online, and find that in-person social connections are harder to initiate and maintain. It seems this is a global phenomenon.

Yet the research is clear: social connections are the root of much of human happiness, health, and longevity. If we want to be happier, making such a change seems stupidly simple.

Author: CT Lin

CMIO, UCHealth (Colorado); Professor, University of Colorado School of Medicine

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