https://www.selleckchem.com/pr....oducts/sbc-115076.ht
Over the past several years, a new problem affecting the elderly population has been increasingly reported in popular press-the elderly population is dying as a result of loneliness and related factors at a rate greater than that of lack of medical care. The problem is so pervasive that loneliness is being described as an epidemic. The objective of this inquiry was to examine whether the physical design of the lived environments could contribute to reducing loneliness in the elderly population. A combination of scoping and conceptual