It is spring, the city wakes up to life, people flock outside. But what if you don’t have anyone who accompanies you, never? Loneliness is a danger among older people in the big city. 22 percent of the over 75-year-olds feel lonely every now and then, among people living alone, it is 35 percent. What can you do about it? Here two people from Hamburg tell what helps them.
“Even the word loneliness makes me emotionally. Sometimes I have to cry what is actually atypical for me. As a trigger, the speech by a politician is enough to speak to me or a nice voice on the radio. I was even with a neurologist to get out of the track. After talking to the doctor, I had to admit: I know that I know that I know that Must be ashamed, but it is difficult for me to talk about it.
