Combating Loneliness With Innovation: The Potential of AI for Alleviating Loneliness Among Residents in Long-Term Care Settings

The pandemic, with its associated contact precautions and visitor restrictions, highlighted the widespread issue of social isolation and loneliness. Recently, the U.S. Surgeon General declared a national loneliness and social isolation epidemic, warning that about half of adults in the country reported experiencing measurable levels of loneliness which has broad-reaching consequences on societal health (“Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation,” Office of the Surgeon General, 2023, https://bit.ly/3x3mzxb).