Older adults are the most socially isolated in America. How do we fix that problem?

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When Delilah Bryant-McCall’s husband suffered an aortic dissection — a split in the part of the heart that delivers oxygen enriched blood to the body — everything became too much. Her life was just worry. This state consumed her and her life: she stopped working and quit community college.

“I was isolating myself, staying home, doing nothing,” she said, looking out the window of the Philadelphia Senior Center – Allegheny a few weeks after her 71st birthday…

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