Written on December 18, 2018 at 7:23 pm, by
Today sees the release of the Scottish Government’s loneliness strategy. We reflect on what’s in the strategy and how it was developed. What’s in the strategy? Scotland was one of the first countries in the world to announce that it would develop a strategy. The Campaign to End Loneliness, along with British Red Cross, has…
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Written on November 20, 2018 at 8:00 am, by
“My wife Joan died suddenly. It was 3 days before my 80th birthday. We had been together for 58 years. My brain hit a brick wall. I would wake up, make breakfast and then realise she wasn’t there. I would go to the café and it would all be couples. I was there on my…
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Written on November 27, 2017 at 12:18 pm, by
1 Million Minutes is Good Morning Britain’s award-winning campaign to encourage all of us to give as little as 30 minutes of our time to help someone who is lonely. It could be your neighbour, your friend or someone in your community. It could even be someone you have never met. In this blog, Barry…
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Written on September 29, 2017 at 3:19 pm, by
Barry is one of the stars of our film The Loneliness Project, which has been seen by over 11 million people. In this blog Barry talks about how losing his wife Christine made him want to get involved in the Campaign to End Loneliness. “Grief opens the door to loneliness” I have seen both sides of…
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Written on September 22, 2017 at 9:51 am, by
Today sees the launch of our new film The Loneliness Project. “Loneliness is like grief; it’s suffocating” There are half a million older people in the UK who can go a whole week without seeing anyone. Loneliness is cutting lives short and we’re here to change that. Our new film attempts to show how damaging…
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Written on November 17, 2016 at 1:52 pm, by
Researcher Dhruv Sharma asks why in this ‘age of connectivity’, with so much research already carried out on loneliness interventions for older adults, we haven’t yet been able to solve the problem of chronic loneliness. “Our bodies and minds are not designed for lonely lives” When talking about the ‘social’ nature of human beings, noted…
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Written on September 1, 2016 at 4:22 pm, by
A large body of research on loneliness focuses upon older adults only. A recent study by Luhmann and Hawkley broadens the knowledge gap by using data from a large nationally representative German study to describe and explain age differences in loneliness across the entire adult life span, from late adolescence to oldest old age. In…
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Written on August 15, 2016 at 11:58 am, by
In our latest guest blog, Dr Claire Niedzwiedz discusses results from a new piece of research, published in Preventive Medicine, investigating how older people’s loneliness varies according to their level of wealth and how those with the least experience more loneliness than the wealthiest. They found that taking part in formal social activities, such as attending a sport or…
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Written on May 4, 2016 at 10:38 am, by
Social prescribing links patients with non-medical facilities in the community which provide social, emotional or practical support. A recent review considered the benefits of 35 social prescribing schemes across the UK. Many of these social prescribing schemes focus on the use of arts, education, exercise or healthy living initiatives, among others, to promote health and…
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Written on March 14, 2016 at 3:33 pm, by
Research carried out in 2015, in conjunction with adult education charity, the Workers’ Education Association, considered how group singing can facilitate the ‘ice-breaker effect’; rapid cohesion between social groups without the need to know individuals on a personal level. This blog post considers what the research found and the implications for service providers. What the…
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