Married individuals typically have better physical and emotional health than the unmarried, and are at lower risk of mortality.
However, these effects depend on the quality of the marriage, and individuals with poor marital quality tend to experience worse health than the unmarried.
By the way, late-life marriage has been recommended as a way to improve the quality of life and reduce the loneliness of older people.
Don't miss the eighteenth episode of the 48-part series on iFilm TV tonight at 19:00 GMT, or better yet watch it now via the website of the channel.
Produced by Hamid Rahimi-Nadi and directed by Saman Moqaddam, ‘Next Door Neighbors 1’ goes on air every night at 19:00 GMT.
iFilm English will also repeat each episode of the series the following day at 03:00, 08:00, 14:00.
It tells the story of a few families that give all their life savings to Mr. Moshiri to build houses for them, but things go wrong for Mr. Moshiri and they end up spending the New Year holidays in a mansion as next-door neighbors.
On the cast list are Pejman Jamshidi, Roya Teymourian, Homayoun Ershadi, Farhad Ayish, Vishka Asayesh, Gohar Kheirandish, Azadeh Samadi, and Reza Naji.
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