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Loneliness and Disability Report

The Jo Cox Commission on Loneliness is starting a national conversation about the scale and impact of loneliness in the UK. As founder members of the Commission, the disability charity, Sense, has brought together a coalition of disability charities to collectively highlight the issue of loneliness for disabled people, and to call for action.

Their report, ‘Someone cares if I’m not there’ explores why loneliness affects so many people with disabilities, from the perspective of disabled people themselves.

The report reveals how disabled people can experience loneliness for a wide range of reasons, including poor access to services, inaccessible transport and venues, financial challenges and social attitudes

Produced for the Jo Cox Commission on Loneliness, the report is leading the conversation around disability and loneliness during a month-long campaign from 10 July to 11 August that will encourage the public and politicians to start a conversation about loneliness and disability.

You can download both the full report and an Easy Read on Sense’s website .

You may wish to be part of the solution and pledge to start a conversation .

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  • Smith:

    27 Jul 2017 11:16:32

    How does this make sense? Pledge to start a conversation? Lonely people don’t have anyone to talk to. How does this thing help people with disability affecting communication issues? A pledge is just a sticking plaster to give the appearance of “doing something”

  • Andrew:

    27 Jul 2017 12:28:37

    Maybe so or maybe this is just a very well intentioned project aiming to draw awareness about the lack of resources available for disabled people, perhaps in relation to social care and independent living. Many older disabled people, for example, may be living at home but without the adequate levels of support to aid their day to day activities.

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