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How can we make loneliness everyone’s business?

Join us in the fight against loneliness! Our initiative, established in 2011 by Independent Age, Sense, RVS, and Age UK Oxfordshire, aims to raise awareness and deepen understanding of loneliness. With a robust network of 10,000 organizations, academics, policy professionals, and supporters, we're making strides. Recently funded by the Big Lottery Fund, we're exploring new ways to combat loneliness and supporting others in their efforts. Loneliness is a complex issue with profound impacts on physical and mental health, life expectancy, and overall well-being. Our focus is on engaging the public, breaking the stigma, and fostering reciprocal connections. Let's work together to make loneliness everyone's concern in every community. Let's equip individuals with the emotional tools and social skills needed to cultivate meaningful relationships. Together, we can create a society where no one has to face loneliness alone.

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How can we make loneliness everyone’s business?

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  1. How can we make loneliness everyone’s business?

  2. Background • Founded in 2011 by Independent Age, Sense, RVS, Age UK Oxfordshire, Manchester City Council • Aim to bring attention to the issue of loneliness and improve understanding • Have a network of 10,000 organisations, academics, policy professionals and supporters

  3. What next? • Secured funding from the Big Lottery Fund to work with new communities and audiences • Test new ideas: we recognise we don’t have all the answers! • Support others in their work and share their knowledge and experiences with others

  4. What we know about loneliness? • Developing topic: many things we don’t understand yet • Transitions in life pose risks: bereavement, illness, disability, retirement • More ‘life transitions’ as you get older • Ageing population increases number

  5. The impact • Impacts on physical health – equivalent to 15 cigarettes a day • Impacts on mental health • Impacts on life expectancy • Impacts on your ability to get out of loneliness • Impacts on us all

  6. The task ahead of us • Making the public take action but in the right way • Making loneliness everyone's business in every community • Helping ‘interventions’ improve and grow • Individual emotional and psychological needs

  7. Engaging the public We want to understand and address: • Why too few people form meaningful connections with older people what will motivate them to do so • How do we make sure those connections are reciprocal and mutually rewarding • The stigma of loneliness • Tap into our human need for connections

  8. Mental health, well being and resilience No amount of ‘interventions’ will work if lonely older people aren’t equipped to use them. • People need to be aware of their feelings • People need to understand it isn’t inevitable • People need to have confidence to admit loneliness • People need to know what to do • People need the social skills to develop connections

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