Tag: psychology
High school students who participated in Boston’s summer jobs program in 2015 work on a public beautification and landscaping project. It’s a spring rite in Boston. The mayor’s office and private and non-profit employers hustle to get ready for a program employing more than 10,000 inner-city teens for the summer. A new study of t…
Social isolation kills – literally. In this video, Professor James Lubben, founding director of Boston College’s Institute on Aging, discusses numerous research studies showing that people who lack a social network of friends or family are more likely to neglect good health practices and to experience psychological distress, cognitive impairment, the common cold, and even…
