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CRITICAL HEALTH HUMANITIES
SPEAKER: Jeremy Nobel, HMS
Loneliness increases your risk of dying early by 30%, with impacts on depression, substance use, cancer, dementia, diabetes, and heart disease. The problem is deeper than physical isolation: for many, a complicating contributor to their disconnection from others is their broken connection with their inner selves. This is why you can feel lonely in a crowded room of colleagues or neighbors, and why the lonely get lonelier. Understanding “loneliness landscapes” is timely and urgent as the loneliness crisis expands globally. Art and creative expression offer a way for people to engage more fully with themselves and with others, offering an authentic connection with others that we seek in the modern vortex of distraction and anonymity. Jeremy Nobel will share his perspectives on how loneliness can be more effectively addressed at both personal and organizational (including health systems!) levels.
About the Speaker
Jeremy is a physician and advocate for the arts in medicine, founder/president of the Foundation for Art and Healing.