Coronavirus: People living alone at risk of loneliness
"I have a lot of texts from friends, and people ring up, from that perspective it's been really good," she said.
showed working-age adults living alone are at greater risk of lockdown loneliness than older people, and those aged 16-24 more than twice as likely to have experienced it than those aged 55-69.Craig Johnson, 29, lives in Cardiff and says there's a"tension" between what people living alone would like to see on an individual level, and what"the collective societal thing needs to be".
"Prior to March every bit of what made my life happy, every positive thing to look forward to during the week are the kind of things not now allowed - and with good reason. All of my life was non-essential social and close contact. For Julia Lloyd, 66, who lives inland from Colwyn Bay, the differences in lockdown rules between England and Wales have made things harder.
"Because I live out in the country and I don't have any neighbours - I just don't see another human being. For 14 weeks, the only other person I've seen is the postman or a food delivery driver. "People who live alone have been particularly affected by lockdown, and we know that loneliness is a real problem.""A good place to start is to ask them how they are, and what support they need, and listen non-judgementally to their response."Julie Morgan MS launched the Welsh Government's loneliness strategy in February.
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