HOUSTON: Loneliness should be treated as a public health priority on a par with poverty and poor housing, MSPs have said.
Social isolation is linked to malnutrition and dementia, with the stigma of admitting to loneliness driving people into desperate situations, according to campaigners.
Law makers heard heartbreaking cases of older people who visit their GP every Monday because they have “no-one else for company” and of one woman who was so ashamed to seek help that she lived in her house without power for six months and scavenged sandwiches from a skip…..