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Loneliness is bad for you – it’s official!

And according to new psychological research, it gets worse as you get older.

The research, by Louise Hawkley and John Cacioppo, was reported in the August issue of Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

McCarthy & Stone have confirmed their theory from the viewpoint of older people who do live in neighbourly surroundings.

McCarthy & Stone triumphed again in this year’s British Housebuilder Awards – clocking up an unbroken run of gold and silver medals for the last nine years.

The company, the largest provider of private retirement apartments, took the silver medal in the supreme category of Best National Builder, beating dozens of others in the mainstream housing sector.

‘New building land is key to growth' says CEO

McCarthy & Stone today announced the first phase of an expansion programme that will see its output of new homes double in the next five years.

Already Britain's largest provider of private retirement apartments, the company will diversify into new areas including ‘total care' developments offering a range of tailored support services including nursing care.

Retirement developer McCarthy & Stone is indisputably Britain's No 1 new home builder, according to two recent surveys.

Polls of home-buyers by the Home Builders Federation (HBF) and the National House-Building Council (NHBC) revealed unprecedented levels of customer satisfaction among McCarthy & Stone residents, placing the company top of Britain's larger housebuilders.

David Pretty, one of the British housebuilding industry’s best-known figures, has been appointed to the Board of retirement specialists McCarthy & Stone.

Mr Pretty takes up the post of non-executive director following his own retirement as Chief Executive of the housebuilding giant Barratt.

A study of home insulation has placed McCarthy & Stone retirement apartments among the warmest properties in Britain. They achieved an insulation rating double the national average, bringing residents lower fuel bills and higher levels of comfort as winter heads for its coldest spell. Some apartments came close to the theoretical maximum possible for a conventionally-built property.