Insights: Loneliness and Mental Health - Series 3, Episode 4 with Dr. Ann-Marie Creaven and - Isabel Taylor

Although it's not directly comparable in the way that it's measured, it does seem to indicate that there was a bit of a disconnect there, though most of the drivers or most of the risk factors for loneliness, were the same, but we did pick up some potential for it actually been the way we talk about loneliness that's actually shaping what we are measuring here because we did actually find that peo. [...] And I think stigma is one of the big issues that restricts our ability to really know what's going on, if we talk about it explicitly, but I do think the question of how we talk about loneliness, and how that has changed over time, really is one of the things that's really difficult to measure, given the data that we're collecting, but could be investigated further, if we have the potential for ha. [...] I think one of the things that did come up from the research we did was that lots of the factors that are associated with alleviating loneliness are not necessarily things that governments can address in terms of policy responses, because some of them are linked to characteristics and the kinds of things that the government might not want to explicitly take action on. [...] And so I think one of the things that did come out from the work was that a kind of a specific strategy might be needed across different people at different life stages, to make sure that the measures that are introduced to address loneliness appropriate for people of different ages and their experiences of life in general, at that point in time. [...] So it does have kind of the potential to have an overview of all of these different factors that could come together, and have that kind of overarching view of the types of things that might be able to improve people's lives in these areas.