Category Archives: 5. Social
Socially Prescribing the Arts – Will it happen? Will it work?
The media has been full of reports that doctors can now prescribe ‘the Arts’ for a range of physical and mental health conditions. In July 2017 an All-Party Parliamentary Group in the UK published a comprehensive report on the importance of the Arts for health and wellbeing. They concluded that it was ‘time to recognise…
Loneliness vs Solitude
Feeling lonely can be a miserable experience. It’s also not very healthy. The good news is you can do something about it. American neuroscientist John Cacioppo has been studying the neuroscience of loneliness and found that it is as detrimental to health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. You don’t have to be socially isolated…