NOTE FROM THE CEO

Note From the CEO

Healthier and Happier Together

This month’s Digital Digest celebrates the importance of positive relationships of all kinds: family, friends, co-workers, neighbors, teammates, and more. Casual, professional, and intimate.

Positive relationships are as important to our overall health and wellbeing as nutrition and physical activity. They reduce the risk of depression, lower blood pressure, and support and encourage healthy lifestyle choices. Unfortunately, it can be increasingly difficult to maintain meaningful social connection as we age. Recent surveys reveal an epidemic of loneliness with more than 50% of all older adults reporting acute loneliness and the result can be devastating.

As you’ll learn in the pages ahead, positive relationships take many forms, but all are built upon respect, empathy, understanding, support, and encouragement. There is no question that we are better together: happier, healthier, and more productive. Of the many things we can be as we age, little is more important than simply being a good friend.

Positive relationships are as important to our overall health and wellbeing as nutrition and physical activity.