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Working together to create vital connections with older peopleLaura Ferguson, Director, Campaign to End Loneliness
www.campaigntoendloneliness.org.uk
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To discuss…
• What is loneliness?• What causes loneliness?• The impacts of loneliness• Combating loneliness:
– Individual action– Improved interventions– Creative partnerships
• What the Campaign to End Loneliness will do
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“I want to visit family members more often but …the cost of petrol is too high and the cost of a train ticket
is out of the question – I would have to win the lottery.”
Quoted in Listening to You, a baseline survey for the Campaign to End Loneliness, Cupitt (2011)
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Definitions*
• Loneliness – personal perspective• Isolation – can be counted by someone else
Isolation can lead to loneliness, but sometimes solitude can be wonderful.
*Adapted from Professor Mima Cattan, Northumbria University
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Statistics on isolation and loneliness
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17% of older people are in contact with family, friends and neighbours less than once a week, and 11% are in contact less than once a month (Victor et al, 2003)
Over half (51%) of all people aged 75 and over live alone (ONS, 2010)
Half of all older people (over 5 million) say the television is their main company (Harrop and Jopling, 2009)
9% say they feel cut off from society (GfK/NOP, 2005)
Just under 50% of older people are sometimes or always lonely and 10% of older people say they always feel lonely (Victor et al, 2003)
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What causes loneliness?
Wider society:•Transport•Physical environment •Community involvement•Housing •Technology •Change
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Personal:•Health/ disability •Income – determines activity•Age – ‘older old’•Life stages and change: bereavement
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The impact of loneliness
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Health – physical and mental•As big a risk to health as smoking and obesity•A doubled risk of Alzheimer’s disease•Greater likelihood of unhealthy life style•Damage to immune and cardiovascular system•Clear link to depression
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Combating loneliness…
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Combatting loneliness through..Individuals taking action
“I know people contribute a lot toward making your life, but I do think you’ve got to try and make a life for yourself as well. I mean, I for one would not sit here for 3 weeks on my own with no one to talk to. I’ve got a free bus pass and I would go to… one of the big places ‘cause there is always somebody that will talk to you”
Quote from Safeguarding the Convoy, A Call to Action from the Campaign to End Loneliness, Age UK Oxfordshire
(2011)
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… working in communities
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… working together to create vital connectionsLocal statutory agencies partnering with local
voluntary and community groups to..
• Understand need via grassroots and mapping
• Fix baselines and milestones
• Existing money, small amounts of money, or no money
• Making loneliness a public health task
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Where to start?
• Everyone taking responsibility to make a small difference
• Involving older people
• Identifying those who are lonely or are at risk of loneliness
• Ensuring the health impacts of loneliness are acted upon through local health commissioning
• Preventing loneliness at times of life-change
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What will we do…
• Raise awareness - health impacts of loneliness. Nationwide campaign to influence health and wellbeing boards in 2012.
• Peer-learning – sharing what works in reducing loneliness – could your project be included?
• We will improve the knowledge base about loneliness – working with researchers and practitioners in the older age charity sector.
• We will inspire people approaching older age to futureproof their lives against loneliness.
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Join us
Receive the latest research news on combating loneliness oSign up as a supporter – receive the latest research news on lonelinessoFollow us on twitter @EndLonelinessUK [email protected] to receive our e-updates
Campaign to End Loneliness
3 Rufus Street, London N1 6PE
020 7012 1409
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‘Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most
terrible poverty.’Mother Teresa
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ReferencesCattan, M, White, M, Bond, J and Learmouth, A (2005). Preventing social isolation and loneliness among older people: a systematic review of health promotion interventions. Ageing and Society, 25, 1, 41–67
GfK/NOP (2005) ‘Help Unite Generations (HUG) Survey for Help the Aged’ (unpublished)
GfK/NOP (2006) ‘Spotlight 2006 Survey for Help the Aged’ (unpublished) data was used in Help The Aged (2006) Spotlight Report 2006: spotlight on older people in the UK (Help the Aged: London)
Harrop, A and Jopling, K (2009) One Voice: shaping our ageing society (Age Concern and Help the Aged) can be accessed online: http://www.pdteam.org.uk/olderpeople/documents/OneVoiceReport.pdf
Harrop, A and Jopling, K (2009) One Voice: shaping our ageing society (Age Concern and Help the Aged).
Office for National Statistics (2010) General Lifestyle Survey 2008 (London: Office for National Statistics).
Victor, C. Scambler, S, Bond, J and Bowling, A. ‘Being alone in later life: loneliness, social isolation and living alone’ Reviews in Clinical Gerontology 2000 v.10 (4)