Isolation and loneliness among older adults is not a new phenomenon
In France, after the Second World War, an organization named Les Petits Frères des Pauvres (Little Brothers of the Poor) was founded to combat loneliness among France’s poor and older people.
Many young men had died in the war, leaving parents behind without anyone to support them. From this original organization, a new and independent American organization, LBFE, was born in the United States.
