Following the launch of our new report, ‘Promising Approaches Revisited: Effective action on loneliness in later life’, our Director of Campaigns, Policy and Research, Robin Hewings, has written a blog about why we updated our seminal 2015 report, what has changed on loneliness since then, and what we learnt from the 140 attendees of the…
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This year, loneliness has achieved a new intensity for too many older people. Connection has never been more important – particularly for those in care homes and living with dementia. Our Campaign Manager for England, Andy Nazer, writes about the terrible toll of people in care homes, isolated from their friends and family. Back in…
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The fourth webinar of our series on Loneliness in the time of Covid-19 focused on volunteers. 50 participants from charities, local government, academia, and health and care came together to share experiences, challenges and ideas. In this blog, Dan Jones reflects on what we heard. You can’t pick up on body language, visual cues, to know how…
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Professor Carolyn Chew-Graham, a GP and researcher in the mental health of older people based at Keele University, has written a blog for us, about her new research, funded by NIHR, to develop and study an intervention which aims to help old people who have been isolated during the COVID-19 restrictions. Impact of COVID-19 restrictions…
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In this blog Robin Hewings, our Director of Campaigns, Policy and Research, reflects on what organisations working to address loneliness have told us about supporting volunteers – a theme we’ll be discussing in our next Loneliness in the time of Covid-19 webinar. The Covid-19 pandemic has brought the work of those helping one another in…
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In this blog, Campaign Associate, Kate Jopling, offers reflections on the themes emerging from the latest ‘Loneliness in the time of Covid-19’ learning session. Earlier this week we brought together over 80 organisations to talk about working with people at higher risk of loneliness as lockdown conditions ease. Our conversation focused on those who have…
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Ahead of our next Loneliness in the time of Covid-19 webinar on 18th August, Dan Jones, an associate of the Campaign, reflects on his experiences supporting a man in his community who is shielding, and the issues this raises for addressing loneliness in the next phase of the pandemic. I met Steve a few months…
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Kate Jopling reflects on the groups who may need extra support in addressing loneliness as we move into the next phase of the Covid-19 crisis, who we’ll be talking about more in our next ‘Loneliness in the time of Covid-19’ discussions. The (home) school holidays are finally here, and a rapid lifting of restrictions over…
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To mark the launch of our landmark report on ‘The Psychology of Loneliness’, our Head of Research, Policy and Innovation, Dr Kalpa Kharicha, has written a blog on the importance of using psychological approaches to help tackle loneliness, and why it’s important for more research to be carried out in this area. Loneliness is an…
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The second webinar of our series on Loneliness in the time of Covid-19 focused on bridging the digital divide. Over 100 participants from charities, local government, academia, and health and care came together to talk about their experiences and learning. In this blog Dan Jones reflects on the insights they shared. In recent months we’ve…
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