To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a working group to formulate recommendations for standardizing the measurements of loneliness and isolation, and for other purposes.
This bill directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to create a national working group to develop standardized ways to measure loneliness and social isolation across the United States. The working group will include representatives from major federal health agencies, mental health experts, and officials from six states selected based on their mental health workforce needs. The group's main goals are to create consistent measurement tools that researchers and healthcare providers can use to study and track loneliness and isolation, to develop clear public definitions of these terms, and to review how loneliness and isolation have been measured in the past. The working group must complete its work and submit a report to Congress within one year of the bill's enactment, with the group itself expiring at the end of 2026. The bill does not specify funding amounts for the working group's operations.
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