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Tackling Loneliness
How Age UK is contributing to this challenge amongst older people
Vinal K Karania
Research & Evaluation Manager
@age_uk @vkkarania
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01 Why Loneliness
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What does loneliness feel like?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHLvtIwTqGo
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Why is combating loneliness important?
• Miserable Experience
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Why is combating loneliness important?
• Miserable Experience
• Over 1 million older people (65 and over in England) are
persistently (chronically) lonely
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Why is combating loneliness important?
• Miserable Experience
• Over 1 million older people (65 and over in England) are
persistently (chronically) lonely
• Nearly 2 million older people (65 and over in GB) often feel
ignored or invisible
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Why is combating loneliness important?
• Miserable Experience
• Over 1 million older people (65 and over in England) are
persistently (chronically) lonely
• Nearly 2 million older people (65 and over in GB) often feel
ignored or invisible
• Associated with negative impacts on emotional wellbeing,
lifestyle, and health
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Barbara’s Experience
“People seriously underestimate the
awfulness of loneliness.”
“I had nobody. I was completely lost.
Day and night, week after week,
month after month. Hours become
like days. Days become like weeks.
The loneliness gets under your
skin.”
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02 Raising Awareness
Age UK Campaign
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No One Should Have No One
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inyaBPWdZIM
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Working in partnership
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03 What Works
Building the Evidence Base
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Promising Approaches
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Age UK’s Testing Promising Approaches to
Reducing Loneliness – the programme
• Phase 1 – 8 Local Age UKs (April 2015 to October 2016)
• Phase 2 – 2 Local Age UKs (May 2017 to February 2018)
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Age UK’s Testing Promising Approaches to
Reducing Loneliness – the programme
• Phase 1 – 8 Local Age UKs (April 2015 to October 2016)
• Phase 2 – 2 Local Age UKs (May 2017 to February 2018)
• Focus on foundation services:
- identifying lonely older people
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Eyes on the Ground
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Age UK Loneliness Heat Map
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Age UK Loneliness Heat Map
“The Loneliness Heat Map has been very
beneficial in identifying the local
hotspot… and has helped identify an area
where Age UK Wirral had no venues or
any social hubs for clients to meet and
engage with each other.”
“One of the difficulties we’ve faced in
identifying people so far has been how to
find them. This tool gives us an easy way
of identifying areas and targeting help
and resources”
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Age UK’s Testing Promising Approaches to
Reducing Loneliness – the programme
• Phase 1 – 8 Local Age UKs (June 2016 to June 2017)
• Phase 2 – 2 Local Age UKs (May 2017 to February 2018)
• Focus on foundation services:
- identifying lonely older people
- understand their issues
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Factors linked with increasing risk of loneliness
• loss of a relationship
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Factors linked with increasing risk of loneliness
• loss of a relationship
• financial difficulties
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Factors linked with increasing risk of loneliness
• loss of a relationship
• financial difficulties
• poor mobility and health
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Factors linked with increasing risk of loneliness
• loss of a relationship
• financial difficulties
• poor mobility and health
• caring responsibilities and quality of contacts with other
people
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Factors linked with increasing risk of loneliness
• loss of a relationship
• financial difficulties
• poor mobility and health
• caring responsibilities and quality of contacts with other
people
• loss of employment
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Factors linked with increasing risk of loneliness
• loss of a relationship
• financial difficulties
• poor mobility and health
• caring responsibilities and quality of contacts with other
people
• loss of employment
• attitudes experienced and quality of local neighbourhood
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Factors linked with increasing risk of loneliness
• loss of a relationship
• financial difficulties
• poor mobility and health
• caring responsibilities and quality of contacts with other
people
• loss of employment
• attitudes experienced and quality of local neighbourhood
• limited or negative outlook on life
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Age UK’s Testing Promising Approaches to
Reducing Loneliness – the programme
• Phase 1 – 8 Local Age UKs (June 2016 to June 2017)
• Phase 2 – 2 Local Age UKs (May 2017 to February 2018)
• Focus on foundation services:
- identifying lonely older people
- understand their issues
- work with them to support their needs and wants
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Age UK’s Testing Promising Approaches to
Reducing Loneliness – the programme
• Phase 1 – 8 Local Age UKs (June 2016 to June 2017)
• Phase 2 – 2 Local Age UKs (May 2017 to February 2018)
• Focus on foundation services:
- identifying lonely older people
- understand their issues
- work with them to support their needs and wants
• Measure loneliness
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Age UK’s Testing Promising Approaches to
Reducing Loneliness – the results
• 88% of older people who were often lonely experienced a
reduction on their loneliness score
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Age UK’s Testing Promising Approaches to
Reducing Loneliness – the results
• 88% of older people who were often lonely experienced a
reduction on their loneliness score
• 70% of older people who were lonely some of the time
experienced a reduction on their loneliness score
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Age UK’s Testing Promising Approaches to
Reducing Loneliness – the learning
• Loneliness is a symptom – it is uniquely personal and
therefore the support needed with vary between people
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Age UK’s Testing Promising Approaches to
Reducing Loneliness – the learning
• Loneliness is a symptom – it is uniquely personal and
therefore the support needed with vary between people
• Train people to have guided conversations
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Age UK’s Testing Promising Approaches to
Reducing Loneliness – the learning
• Loneliness is a symptom – it is uniquely personal and
therefore the support needed with vary between people
• Train people to have guided conversations
• Build awareness of loneliness amongst key people
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Age UK’s Testing Promising Approaches to
Reducing Loneliness – the learning
• Loneliness is a symptom – it is uniquely personal and
therefore the support needed with vary between people
• Train people to have guided conversations
• Build awareness of loneliness amongst key people
• Build on existing assets and services
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Age UK’s Testing Promising Approaches to
Reducing Loneliness – the learning
“Holistic support of individuals has
engendered trust and helped many
clients to become less stressed
and less lonely by taking an active
role in deciding what activities and
support are right for them” [Staff]
I have something to look
forward to which I didn’t
have before and the
people I meet are all very
nice” [Older Person]
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Age UK’s Testing Promising Approaches to
Reducing Loneliness – the learning
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What next for Age UK?
• Integrating the learning (and loneliness) within services
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What next for Age UK?
• Integrating the learning (and loneliness) within services
• Integrating common measure of loneliness across services
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What next for Age UK?
• Integrating the learning (and loneliness) within services
• Integrating common measure of loneliness across services
• Sharing learning and working with other organisations
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What next for Age UK?
• Integrating the learning (and loneliness) within services
• Integrating common measure of loneliness across services
• Sharing learning and working with other organisations
• Keeping tackling loneliness amongst older people on the
agenda
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References
• Promising approaches to reducing loneliness and isolation in
later life (http://bit.ly/AgeUKPromisingApproachesLoneliness)
• Testing Promising Approaches to Reducing Loneliness –
Results and Learnings of Age UK’s Loneliness Pilot
(http://bit.ly/AgeUKTestingPromisingApproachesLonelinessR
eport)
• Testing Promising Approaches to Reducing Loneliness –
Technical Annex – Quantitative Data Collected
(http://bit.ly/AgeUKTestingPromisingApproachesQuantitative)
• No one should have no one – Working to end loneliness
amongst older people (www.ageuk.org.uk/no-one-report)
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References
• No one should have no one – Working to end loneliness
amongst older people (www.ageuk.org.uk/no-one-report)
• Age UK Loneliness Heat Map (https://www.ageuk.org.uk/our-
impact/policy-research/loneliness-research-and-
resources/loneliness-maps/)
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