During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, Toronto emergency room physician Jacques Lee was met with an elderly man who felt he was dying from loneliness.

“He begged me not to go back (to long-term care),” said Dr. Lee, the Research Chair in Geriatric Emergency Medicine at the Schwartz/Reisman Emergency Medicine Institute at Mount Sinai Hospital.

As Jamie Mauracher reports— it’s a feeling that’s killing thousands of Canadians each year.

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