Gill Young combats senior isolation through social entrepreneurship in Pennington, creating community connections and purpose for retirees.
Tag Archives: community building
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Challenging the narrative: Why the ‘loneliness epidemic’ may be overblown and what we really need is genuine connection, not societal panic.
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The rise of ‘friendship apps’ Our phones have made us lonelier. These apps promise to find us a BFF. Getty Images; Alyssa Powell/BI Read in app On one of the coldest nights in New York this year, I bundled up and went to a trendy tourist trap to meet up with five people who also felt that the pull to make new friends was stronger than the windchill. I didn’t know anything about my matches aside from a text I’d received that told me that two of them also like reading, that several enjoyed the same irreverent TV shows I do, like “Arrested Development” and “Broad City,” and that one had bungee jumped in New Zealand. We were meeting as a group curated by the app 222 , which asks