Social isolation and loneliness guide

We would like to keep this guide useful and current and ask that you:

• share the guide with your colleagues and talk about how you recognise and support your clients/patients/service users who may be at risk of or experiencing social isolation or loneliness
• use the guide to start conversations about social isolation and loneliness with other organisations you work with
• consider what interventions/projects you could set up or fund to address social isolation
• consider how your services could start to monitor their impact on social isolation and loneliness by using the ONS loneliness measures as part of your project evaluation
• consider making every contact count (MECC) training for you and your colleagues
• give us feedback about this guide and share any new information or useful links that we could add to it