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Study quantifies the impact of loneliness in old age on life and health expectancy In 1966, The Beatles cemented the plight of lonely older people in the popular imagination with the iconic Eleanor Rigby , a song that turned pop music on its head when it stayed at number one on the British charts for four weeks. Today, the impact of loneliness in old age on life and health expectancy has been categorically quantified for the first time in a study by scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School (Singapore), Nihon University (Tokyo, Japan) and their collaborators, published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

United statesUnited kingdomAngelique chanRahul malhotraEleanor rigbyEmily hendersonTransitions in healthNihon universityCentre for ageing researchNihon university tokyoResearch project professor yasuhiko saitoJournal of the american geriatrics societyHead of research atCollege of economicsSchool singaporeEleanor rigby