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Age UK pilot programme shows promise in reducing loneliness

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With 1.2 million older people in the UK chronically lonely, an Age UK trial has been successful in testing new approaches to combatting isolation.  New research has found that nearly half a million people over the age of 60 usually spend every day alone. A further half a million go at least five or six days a week without seeing or speaking to anyone at all. These statistics around loneliness were featured in Age UK’s latest report ‘No one should have no one: working to end loneliness amongst older people.’ The report warned that loneliness leads to an increased demand

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