{"id":80,"date":"2025-09-08T17:24:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T17:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flourishingtogether.bc.edu\/?page_id=80"},"modified":"2025-10-06T11:02:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T11:02:32","slug":"swl","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/flourishingtogether.bc.edu\/index.php\/swl\/","title":{"rendered":"Loneliness: The Data, The Solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-superbfont-medium-font-size\">Hosted by the Social Work Library<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:3px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contents<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-mono-2-color has-text-color has-link-color has-superbfont-small-font-size wp-elements-c856062a75d9465e58c479c2e63fbe1f\"><a href=\"https:\/\/flourishingtogether.bc.edu\/index.php\/swl2\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"418\">Loneliness Is Not A New Problem<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-mono-2-color has-text-color has-link-color has-superbfont-small-font-size wp-elements-cfb1063e1c8578ffdebcfeb29ee5195c\"><a href=\"https:\/\/flourishingtogether.bc.edu\/index.php\/swl3\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"425\">Solutions Anywhere<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-mono-2-color has-text-color has-link-color has-superbfont-small-font-size wp-elements-ea3995df7912f4be36307bf6d459d7e3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/flourishingtogether.bc.edu\/index.php\/swl4\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"420\">Boston College Faculty Research on Loneliness<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-mono-2-color has-text-color has-link-color has-superbfont-small-font-size wp-elements-6e22280ddbe63040b63ad3517ec03711\"><a href=\"https:\/\/flourishingtogether.bc.edu\/index.php\/swl5\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"429\">Endnotes<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-a89b3969 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div 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