social isolation

Older LGBTQ+ people often face social isolation and fear as they age, and sometimes feel the need to go back into the closet to receive medical care or live in group settings.

Angela Smith can’t access her email – she has no computer, no tablet, no high-cost data plan and the library’s closed. Smith, 48, is taking care of her 74-year-old mother, Minnie, in the Cedar Extension High-Rise senior apartments on East 30th Street, a Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority building just down the street from Cleveland’s main post office. Angela has Type 2 diabetes and Minnie has rheumatoid arthritis in her hands, feet and hips.

"During the pandemic, basically everything is pointed in the wrong direction," says one federal health official, who calls the convergence of COVID-19 and America's addiction crisis "a nightmare."

For many young people, going to college allows them to finally express their sexual orientation or gender identity. Now with schools closed, many are suffering with families that don't accept them.

As parents struggle to keep their children engaged and educated during school closures, Columbus artists are lending a hand with a new coloring…

Some fear the stress of social isolation, historic unemployment and health fears during the pandemic threatens our mental health. Dozens of national...

When the order came to shelter in place, in the hopes of flattening the infection rate of COVID-19, I immediately thought of Bob Grove.He’s a friend, has…

Following Ohio's order prohibiting visitors to nursing home facilities, providers are scrambling to find ways to connect residents with their family…

In an age of social media and film streaming, Americans are becoming more and more socially isolated. Social isolation is considered more objective than…