by ellen | Dec 10, 2020 | News
Health technology may help patients struggling with loneliness. Loneliness costs, and loneliness kills. It is well documented that loneliness—the discrepancy between the number and quality of relationships that one desires and those one actually has—dramatically...
by ellen | Oct 26, 2020 | Press Releases
When COVID-19 swept across the country earlier this year, it exacerbated an ongoing epidemic growing in recent years: isolation. Sociologists and public health experts have tracked a “loneliness epidemic” affecting the mental and physical health of a wide range of...
by ellen | Sep 22, 2020 | News
Long before the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered people in their homes, Tucson entrepreneurs Cindy and Anne Jordan launched a tech startup in 2017 to address health problems stemming from loneliness and isolation.Now the pandemic has brought those issues to the fore, and...
by ellen | Sep 22, 2020 | News
TUCSON (KVOA) – The COVID-19 Pandemic has not only brought on physical issues but emotional and mental problems as well. One-third of adults are chronically lonely. It is hard to identify members who are suffering – unlike diabetes, there is no “test” for loneliness....
by ellen | Sep 2, 2020 | Press Releases
Working to reform a health system that “leaves the lonely behind” Contact: Matt RussellRussell Public Communications(520) [email protected] Tucson, AZ (September 2, 2020) — Pyx Health, a health care IT company targeting the surging loneliness and...