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| The high cost of isolation | | Author(s) | Tom Owen |
| Corporate Author | Help the Aged |
| Journal title | Working with Older People, vol 5, no 1, January 2001 |
| Pages | pp 21-23 |
| Keywords | Isolation ; Loneliness ; Social policy. |
| Annotation | A MORI survey for Help the Aged (Isolation among older people, 2000) has shown that nearly a million older people feel isolated and lonely. The author urges local and national government to take the problem seriously, if only to avoid the high-cost consequences. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010302208 A |
| Classmark | TP: DV: TM2 |
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