This project will provide elderly and other actors with tools to tackle with their loneliness feeling, increase self-esteem, and understand that living alone does not mean living in loneliness.
MANIFESTO FOR ADDRESSING AND REDUCING OLDER ADULTS LONELINESS IN EUROPE
Recognising the impact loneliness has on the health and mental or psychological well-being of older citizens and the vulnerable we can transform our services and intervention programmes to be more proactive and responsive.
Among others, the manifesto agrees and endorses the following principles in reducing loneliness amongst older adults and the vulnerable in our society:
1) Listen and learn from older adults to achieve a better understanding of current loneliness among in urban and rural environments, and to identify causes, consequences and solutions. 2) Increase awareness of loneliness and the impact it has for older citizens amongst all stakeholders and in particular policy makers. 3) Work for the detection and prevention of loneliness from a coordinated and holistic perspective 4) Include older adults in the design and development of policies and services affecting them 5) Share knowledge and learning with other regions so that across Europe we collectively work to reduce loneliness in the elderly and vulnerable.
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Unwanted loneliness has increased all around the world. Social isolation occurs when a person finds him/her-self in a situation of suffering because an insufficient number and quality of relationships. Loneliness means that people do not encounter anyone or very rarely in their daily lives. People in isolation stays at home and does not go out every day – which ultimately means also an isolation from their peers (neighbours, friends), family or associative networks.
