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Safeguarding the convoy
— a call to action from the Campaign to End Loneliness | | Author(s) | Paul Cann, Kate Jopling, Christina R Victor |
| Corporate Author | Campaign to End Loneliness; Age UK Oxfordshire |
| Publisher | Age UK Oxfordshire, Abingdon, Oxon, 2011 |
| Pages | 60 pp |
| Source | Download: http://www.ageuk.org.uk/brandpartnerglobal/oxfords... |
| Keywords | Loneliness ; Isolation ; Preventative medicine ; Projects. |
| Annotation | The Campaign to End Loneliness is a project which aims to create connections in older age. It was started in 2010 by four founder partners, Age UK Oxfordshire, Counsel and Care, Independent Age and WRVS, and is funded by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Paul Cann and Kate Jopling from Age UK outline the challenge required in ending loneliness; they present some facts and figures about the causes and reasons, who is lonely, who is responsible for ending loneliness, and how. Some leading gerontology academics present short papers on the evidence: Chirstina Victor on loneliness in old age: the UK perspective; Thomas Scharf with an urban perspective; Vanessa Burholt on loneliness of older men and women in rural areas of the UK; Jenny de Jong Gierveld, Tineke Fokkema and Theo Van Tilburg on alleviating loneliness among older adults; and Mima Cattan on alleviating social isolation and loneliness in older people. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-130906004 E |
| Classmark | DV: TP: LK2: 3E |
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