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Loneliness
— a call for community approaches | | Author(s) | Kate Foxwell |
| Journal title | Faculty for the Psychology of Older People (FPOP) Newsletter, no 131, July 2015 |
| Publisher | British Psychological Society, July 2015 |
| Pages | pp 57-61 |
| Source | www.bps.org.uk |
| Keywords | Loneliness ; Attitudes to the old of general public ; Attitude ; Clinical psychologists ; Neighbourhoods, communities etc. |
| Annotation | Loneliness is starting to be recognised as an important issue by initiatives such as the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Network of Age-Friendly Cities and the Campaign to End Loneliness. The author of this article also suggests that 'it feels necessary to acknowledge findings that suggest that younger generations overestimate how lonely older people are, compared with figures when asking older people themselves, with levels of loneliness similar between the under 25s and over 60s.' Rather than ignoring each other, more talking to each other in shared social settings such as the pub, the bus stop or supermarket queue would be a good start. This article is a call from one lonely community-oriented psychologist to others in the field to begin the conversation. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-150731222 A |
| Classmark | DV: TOB: DP: QT9A: RH |
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