There's no universal definition of solution to loneliness.
It's experienced differently by different people, and it requires
an individual response across a range of sectors.
So there is a personal meaning to loneliness,
and the way to understand it really is to ask people
about their own experiences and what was also done in this evidence.
It's really helpful is that social care practitioners were asked,
how do you know loneliness when you say it?
and there were various different indicators that people talked about.
So limited social contact was, a very clear
indicator, linked to community involvement.
So for adults, widowed older homeowners,
people who live alone, have long term health conditions.
That's not this group.
people are middle aged with long term health conditions who are married.
so it's very connected with
whether you have a relationship, whether you have health difficulties
and younger renters,
people who have moved into a community that maybe haven't put down roots.
And is also very often connected with mental health conditions.
either as a cause of loneliness and social isolation or actually as a consequence.
So there's a real kind of mixed, picture there.
Poverty, of course, is a real exacerbating factor.
it does limit people's social connection and social capital.
And one of the things that's quite,
encouraging, although also,
difficult and complex, is that it's about changing condition.
it's not necessarily fixed or static.
So that means that it can respond to it.