Lets talk loneliness

Let's Talk Loneliness

• Resources to support the UK Government announced a programme of work to tackle loneliness in England and the Loneliness Strategy, The website brings together organisations, resources and stories to get more people talking about loneliness.

Tackling loneliness - briefing

Tackling loneliness
House of Commons Library Research Briefing 14 June 2021

• This briefing covers research into the prevalence, causes and impact of loneliness and interventions to address the issue. Includes impact of COVID-19, Jo Cox Commission on Loneliness and UK Government Loneliness Strategy.

Reducing loneliness among migrant and ethnic minority people: a participatory evidence synthesis.

Reducing loneliness among migrant and ethnic minority people: a participatory evidence synthesis. Public Health Res 2020;8(10)

• Researchers identified eight different types of intervention that can potentially reduce loneliness among ethnic minority and migrant groups. Three were common: befriending (a one-to-one supportive relationship), shared-identity social support groups (similar people coming together to support each other and engage in meaningful activities) and intercultural encounters (people interacting across ethnic or cultural difference). Evidence on whether or not these initiatives work in practice was limited. 

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The Social Prescribing Link Worker Model - loneliness

The Social Prescribing Link Worker Model
Red Cross 2020

• A literature review of the existing evidence of the impact of the link worker model on loneliness, and the views and experiences of the people who deliver and access these services.

Loneliness Annual Report: the first year

Loneliness Annual Report: the first year
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, Office for Civil Society, Baroness Barran MBE, and The Rt Hon Baroness Nicky Morgan, 20 January 2020

• The first Annual Report on tackling loneliness provides a progress update since the publication of the cross-government Loneliness Strategy in October 2018.

Position statement on loneliness and social isolation

Position statement on loneliness and social isolation
British Geriatrics Society, Royal College of Psychiatrists 17 December 2019

• Early identification and treatment of health conditions that increase loneliness are crucial to improving the lives of older people. Key elements of this position statement include improving the process of identifying older people suffering from loneliness, the role of social prescribing and voluntary sector interventions, and advice for commissioners.

Lets talk Loneliness - website

Lets talk Loneliness https://letstalkloneliness.co.uk/

• This website brings together organisations, resources and inspirational stories that are united in a shared aim, to get more people talking about loneliness. Includes a map of local organisations.

Loneliness: a reading list

Loneliness: a reading list
House of Commons Library 5 August 2019

• This reading list provides links to various publications considering the causes and impact of loneliness, as well as possible interventions to deal with the issue in society. It can be read in conjunction with the Library paper, Tackling loneliness (CBP 8514), which considers some of the research in this field as well as the UK Government's loneliness strategy. Includes 
• Age-related studies
• Disabled persons
• Migrants, refugees and BAME
• LGBT persons
• Links to health and mental health
• Costs of loneliness
• Loneliness interventions