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The Kennedy Center Arts Summit: UnLonely Discussion
Bill O'Brien and Jeremy Nobel have a conversation about how the arts can have a big impact on mitigating one of today's major health crises: Loneliness. Bill O'Brien, Senior Advisor for Innovation/Director of Creative Forces, National Endowment for the Arts Bill...
Loneliness Coverage in the NY Times
PERSONAL HEALTH To Counter Loneliness, Find Ways to Connect Much of modern life, though seeming to promote connectivity, has had the opposite effect of fostering social isolation and loneliness, experts say. By Jane E. Brody June 25, 2018 A four-minute...
Goodbye, loneliness. Hello, happiness — a prescription for healthier lives
Op-ed: Why Combatting Loneliness is Critical Recent research has uncovered the potentially devastating health effects of loneliness and social isolation, including a global rise in suicide, alcoholism-related liver disease, and addiction. In a May 8, 2018...
UnLonely on the Today Show
It's not every day the Today Show comes knocking, so you can imagine the thrill when reporter Kate Snow and producer Jared Crawford contacted us for their series on loneliness. They did a terrific job of laying out the why this has become one of today's major public...
Conversation at the School of Art Institute of Chicago
Being UnLonely through Creative Expression A conversation with Joseph Behen, Executive Director, Counseling, Health, and Disability Services at the School of Art Institute of Chicago and Jeremy Nobel, MD, MPH, President of the Foundation for Art & Healing...
Psychology Today Disconnection Article
Featured in Psychology Today: A Cure for Disconnection Loneliness is so insidious: It hides in plain sight and, unlike smoking or obesity, isn't typically seen as a threat, even though it takes a greater toll on our well-being. The need for intervention is...
Being UnLonely: Psychology Today
How to Be UnLonely During the Holidays Coping during a season of high expectations As published on PsychologyToday.com Why do we get lonely during the holidays? Let’s think about why we get lonely at all. Most people experience loneliness as a gap...
Caregivers Month
Celebrating Caregivers Month in Augusta Caregiving is very difficult work, work that can be physically grueling and emotionally grinding. It often results in isolation and loneliness for the caregiver who, over time, increasingly withdraws from activities in...
Center Stage: Creative Expression in Military Health
Center Stage: Creative Expression in Military Health Jeremy Nobel MD, MPH, Founder and President of the Foundation for Art & Healing, served as a presenter at the 2016 conference for the Americans for the Arts (AFTA) in Boston. For nearly 60 years, Americans for the...
The UnLoneliness Project Launch Event
The UnLonely Project Launches with Good Cheer! The Foundation for Art & Healing (FAH) is celebrating the launch of The UnLonely Project, its signature initiative designed to address the loneliness epidemic. A growing body of research shows that in addition to the...
