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Listening to you
— the baseline report from the Campaign to End Loneliness | | Author(s) | Sally Cupitt |
| Corporate Author | Campaign to End Loneliness; Charities Evaluation Services; Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation |
| Publisher | Campaign to End Loneliness, 2011 |
| Pages | 32 pp |
| Source | http://www.campaigntoendloneliness.org.uk/ |
| Keywords | Loneliness ; Isolation ; Preventative medicine ; Projects ; Social surveys. |
| Annotation | The Campaign to End Loneliness, launched in February 2011, is a coalition of organisations working together through research, policy, campaigning and innovation to inspire individuals to keep connected in older age. The report presents the results of a survey of more than 1,500 adults aged over 40 (the majority over 65) who were asked about their views on loneliness and what they were doing to prevent or alleviate it. Many respondents (especially younger participants) thought that loneliness in older people is much more prevalent than it actually is. Almost all respondents knew about the links between loneliness and health, and most felt that it was an important social issue. Most kept in touch with or gave support to older friends and family frequently, and respondents over 65 reported more contact with family and friends than those aged 65 and under. About a third of respondents (mostly younger people) said they wanted to do more to help people over 65 stay connected. Over half the respondents said they worried about becoming lonely in the future, however as the age of respondents went up they worried about loneliness less. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-111228007 B |
| Classmark | DV: TP: LK2: 3E: 3F |
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| ...from the Ageinfo database published by Centre for Policy on Ageing. |
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