Category: Mental health

Only a call away: Reducing loneliness and social isolation in older people

by | Sep 30, 2021 | Blogs, Healthy ageing, Mental health

Dr Lis Boulton assesses the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on older people, and how they can be supported now and in the future.

Rapid systematic review of systematic reviews: what befriending, social support and low intensity psychosocial interventions, delivered remotely, may reduce social isolation and loneliness among older adults and how?

by mdxaslm7 | Apr 1, 2021 | COVID-19, Mental health, Publications

Looking at what remotely delivered befriending, social support and low intensity psychosocial interventions may help to alleviate social isolation and loneliness.

Remotely delivered interventions to reduce social isolation and loneliness

by | May 2, 2020 | COVID-19, Inequality, Mental health, Past projects

Exploring various remote interventions to see what is effective at combatting loneliness in older adults.

Interventions aimed at reducing or preventing loneliness and/or social isolation

by | Jan 2, 2020 | Inequality, Mental health, Past projects, Prevention

A review focusing on older people identified as being, or at risk of being, socially isolated and/or lonely, including interventions aimed at reducing or preventing loneliness and/or social isolation.