Signal Loneliness reframed as a global public health problem

Summary

This signal concerns research showing that loneliness has become a global issue. Sitra cites an Open Access Government article from February 2022 describing rising loneliness as a worldwide public health problem. The framing moves loneliness from private misfortune into the domain of public health. It provides the backdrop for many signals about people deliberately building families and communities. Sitra's imagined 2046 magazine asks whether this growing epidemic of loneliness will have been overcome. Its speculative answer is to form families through legal contracts.