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Need Help with Loneliness?

Our resource page has just begun. Look for many more resources in the coming months.

In The US:

 

AARP Foundation Connect2Affect

Our goal is to create a network of resources that meets the needs of anyone who is isolated or lonely, and that helps build the social connections older adults need to thrive.

 

The SAGE LGBT Elder Hotline 

(877-360-LGBT (5428) Members of our community are likely to live alone and feel isolated. Through our hotline, we can connect everyone with a phone to an LGBT responder who is friendly, knowledgeable, and ready to listen. 

The Unlonely Project

Raising awareness about loneliness as a pressing health problem and promote creative expression as an innovative approach to alleviate it.

 

Aging With Pride


 

In The UK:

Campaign to End Loneliness

AgeUK

Resources to find out what causes loneliness and how we can help tackle the problem.

The Children’s Society

We want better mental health advice for children and young people, and we are here to support you. We also want to make sure teenagers always have somewhere to turn, and we are fighting to ensure you get the mental health advice you need.

 

Independent age

providing befriending services: 0800 319 6789

 

Sense

advice and support on deafblindness 0300 330 9256 or 020 7520 0972. 

Textphone: 0300 330 9256 or 020 7520 0972

 

The Silver Line 

advice or just for a chat, 24 hours a day and 7 days a week 0800 470 80 90

 

Mind, The Mental Health Charity



 

Organizations and solutions shown in this film:

 

AgeUK Shropshire Telford & Wrekin 

Telebuddies

Kushdill Day Centre

 

Shrewsbury Walking Football Club

 

GrandPad: Tablet for Seniors

 

Social Prescribing in Shropshire


NHS England Social Prescribing

 

Shrewsbury Dial-A-Ride

 

UK Mens Sheds Association

Mens Sheds Australia

US Mens Sheds Association

 

SAGE Table

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