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Strengthening Social Connection to Accelerate Social Recovery

8 Aug 2022

People who have never felt the Ending Loneliness Together is committed to anguish of loneliness have experienced distressing evidence-based action to reduce loneliness and loneliness for the first time in their lives due to the to encourage meaningful social connection for implementation of public health recommendations all Australians across the lifespan and across our and restrictions to curb th. [...] Hon Andrew Giles MP All of us have a responsibility to combat chronic and Co-Chair of Parliamentary Friends of Ending distressing loneliness – and as a society, we can start Loneliness to shift the way we speak about it and the way we can 4 Strengthening Social Connection to Accelerate Social Recovery: A White Paper Strengthening Social Connection to Accelerate Social Recovery: A White Paper 5 Rem. [...] World Health Organization 8 Strengthening Social Connection to Accelerate Social Recovery: A White Paper Strengthening Social Connection to Accelerate Social Recovery: A White Paper 9 Loneliness and social isolation can affect anyone at Internationally, loneliness and social isolation any age and the COVID-19 pandemic has brought are clearly recognised as significant threats to the need for social. [...] Loneliness and social We can address loneliness and social isolation Empower our We can develop and launch a co-designed ev- 3 isolation as preventative in communities and clinical settings as this may idence-based national community awareness prevent or delay, the onset of poorer health and Communities to Help campaign to ensure all Australians feel able to seek and intervention targets social ou. [...] The Meaningful Social Connection framework social opportunity may not always lead to reducing will identify the principles and elements of effective loneliness, and in some cases may cause more approaches to reduce loneliness and social distress or risk to further discrimination and social isolation across all sectors.
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