By Yo Zushi – Men’s Health –
Social isolation is now regarded as a major public health issue – one with global reach and tragic ramifications. But what can be done about it? MH spoke to those working to break the cycle.
In December 2018, Tina, a transport worker based in Bridgend, was diagnosed with terminal cancer. She died the following March. There was little time to prepare, and little time to make plans. Her husband of 38 years, Rob, had spent their final summer together being tested for prostate cancer; it was his illness that they had been contending with. But now Rob had been given the all-clear and Tina was gone. ‘I had a lot of feelings of guilt then,’ he tells me today. ‘If I could have swapped places with her, I would have.’
