BIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER | On June 7, 2018, Tivity Health’s Donato Tramuto and I convened a roundtable at the Bipartisan Policy Center to discuss challenges and potential solutions to address a little-discussed public health crisis: social isolation and our aging population. What many don’t realize is that social isolation could be an even bigger public health threat than smoking or obesity and it could raise the risk of premature death by up to 50 percent.

Today, we’re excited to release the findings from our roundtable, which we hope will help fuel a national discussion and call to action to reverse an epidemic of loneliness.

Read the report, “Rural Aging: Health and Community Policy Implications for Reversing Social Isolation,” at the Bipartisan Policy Center: https://bipartisanpolicy.org/library/rural-aging-health-and-community-policy-implications-for-reversing-social-isolation/