Research shows loneliness costs the Australian economy $2.7 billion per year or $1565 per person.
The World Health Organisation has also declared loneliness to be a global health concern. And it’s estimated loneliness has an equivalent health impact on the body to smoking 15 cigarettes a day.
Before the pandemic older Australians were found to be the loneliest in the nation. But now the data now shows this has shifted and younger Australians are the feeling the effects of being alone and isolated.
Technology has allowed us to be more connected than before, but has all this left us lonelier than ever?
Guests:
Andrew Dempster, Principal Director & Leader of the National Mental Health Advisory Business, KPMG
Roger Wilkins, Professorial Fellow at Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, and Co-Director of the HILDA Survey
Liesel Sharabi, from the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University.
Lixia Qu, Senior Research Fellow at the Australian Institute of Family Studies.
Australia's decline in income inequity & reforming private health insurance
The pandemic, protectionism and paying for the downturn
Melbourne's CBD economy and plans for recovery
Build back better - jobs in services that communities need
Houses outstrip wages and could WFH lead to more urban sprawl?
Vaccine costs and how the pandemic will make permanent changes to our economy
How can we improve aged care?
Logistics - a $7 trillion global industry you probably haven’t thought about until the pandemic
Hyper growth for local telehealth start-up and the paradox of thrift
'Harsh numbers' - deficit hits record high and unemployment to grow
Rethinking deficits and what's the future of city office space?
Survival in the arts sector and Melbourne's bitter economic blow
Tourism sector looks to locals to survive
Hospitality sector struggles with downturn and more Australians out of work
At the shops
Made in Australia
Study to work: 2.6 years to get job after uni
The passion economy
Cost of living
Counting the costs of Australia's bushfires
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