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Clinical Health Conditions Loneliness and social isolation can cause immense impact on a person’slife, but physical health should also not be under-estimated. Psychological health conditions may lead to a physical health condition that needs to be cured before it gets worse. A research shows that lonely individuals are at more risk of getting disabled, cognitive decline, obesity and 64% people have chances to develop dementia. (Bathnes.gov.uk, 2019) In figure 1.9, an article depicts the life expectancy and proportion of life spent in good health for adults age 65 and above, for year 2014 to 2016. As life expectancy increase so does the time spent in poor health. (Ons.gov.uk, 2019)

The poor health may contain a number of clinically knows diseases that may or may not be caused by psychological conditions, but there are a number of poor health conditions that are cause by depression and stress. The diagram below states physical and cognitive conditions starts developing as human grows. The figure 1.10 depicts conditions like excessive smoking, obesity and unhealthy diet are developed due to depression that is caused by loneliness and isolation

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