People of all ages are lonely, not just the elderly

Paul D’alton is wrong to say that older people who are lonely suffer more, emotionally, than anyone else. Chronic loneliness is terrible, whether that person is younger or older, or whether they live in a rural or urban area.

Categorising human suffering is ignorant and it insults the many adults, of all ages, who are lonely.

Mr Dalton’s article also seems to suggest that all lonely people are “depressed and withdrawn”. That’s not true, either. I have previously written about the need for society to approach, as one, issues like loneliness.

Tim Buckley

Bowling Green

White St.

Cork City