Beyond the Step Count: Why America's Loneliness Crisis Is Invisible to Your Wearable
Fitness trackers and wellness apps have become sophisticated instruments for measuring the physical dimensions of health—sleep cycles, heart rate variability, daily movement. But the factors most powerfully shaping American health outcomes right now include social isolation, financial precarity, and community fragmentation—none of which any wearable on the market can detect. This is the story of a gap that the mHealth industry has yet to seriously reckon with.