Health Flash – Loneliness – Health Continuum

Health Flash – Loneliness

January 3, 2016January 3, 2016 by Julie Zimmer

Make community a priority. Our brains are wired to interconnect with others and our survival depends on community. Currently, 40% of American adults report being lonely. Chronic loneliness threatens human health as much as smoking and obesity does. It causes heart disease and premature death.

Julie Zimmer

Julie has extensive experience in nursing practice and education in a wide range of fields from intensive/coronary care, to medical-surgical to community and public health. Julie has Bachelor Degrees in Psychology and Nursing, and a Master’s Degree in Community Health Nursing Education. She has taught in faculties of nursing and in various communities in Toronto, Canada and in Geneva, Switzerland, and is a consultant to the International Council of Nurses (ICN). Julie also has years of experience teaching English as a foreign language (EFL) in addition to coordinating an English department in a Swiss private school.