• Tackling loneliness and social isolation through connected communities
• A strategy for tackling loneliness and social isolation and building stronger social connections
• Connected communities – Tackling loneliness and social isolation [in Wales]. Consultation ended in January 2019

National Academies: The Health and Medical Dimensions of Social Isolation and Loneliness in Older Adults

• Social Isolation and Loneliness in Older Adults: Opportunities for the Health Care System
• National Academies: The Health and Medical Dimensions of Social Isolation and Loneliness in Older Adults

Other

• A Connected Society: A Strategy for Tackling Loneliness – Laying the Foundations for Change, published October 2018, England
• A Connected Scotland: our strategy for tackling social isolation and loneliness and building stronger social connections, published in Dec 2018
• A Connected Island. An Ireland Free From Loneliness. A Report from the Loneliness Taskforce. Published in June 2018.
• Campaign to End Loneliness
• Loneliness and ageing: Ireland, North and South
• Loneliness and ageing: Ireland, North and South – Summary Report

Selected presentations: Loneliness in Later Life: Interventions – what works?: 5-7th December 2018, Belfast, Northern Ireland

The Institute of Public Health in Ireland (IPH) and the Bamford Centre for Mental Health & Wellbeing at Ulster University co-hosted an international seminar on loneliness in December 2018.
 

Day 1

• Loneliness – a UK Perspective – what we know, what we think we know and what we don’t know: Prof Christina Victor – Brunel University London: Presentation
• Loneliness in Ireland and the Irish Migrants: Prof Gerry Leavey – Ulster University Presentation
• Loneliness in the Netherlands: Prof Theo van Tilburg – Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam: Presentation
• Isolation and Loneliness – a US Perspective : Prof Jim Lubben – Boston College: Presentation
   

Day 2

• Opening address: Eddie Lynch – Commissioner for Older People for Northern Ireland: Presentation
• The Complexity of Loneliness in Later Life: Addressing the Issues: Prof Vanessa Burholt – Swansea University: Presentation
• A national response to loneliness and improving the health and wellbeing of older and vulnerable adults in Ireland: Sean Moynihan – ALONE: Presentation
• A model for addressing loneliness, isolation and improving health and wellbeing among men: Barry Sheridan – Men’s Sheds: Presentation
• Loneliness in later life – public health responses: Sarah Reid – Public Health Agency: Presentation
• The Role of the Health Professional in Loneliness Assessments: Prof Carla Perissinotto – University of California: Presentation
• Campaign to end loneliness: learning for research, policy and practice: Fiona Murphy – Campaign to end loneliness: Presentation
• Designing a new social infrastructure for 21st century needs: Prof Linda Fried – Columbia University: Presentation
   

Day 3

• A clinical experience of loneliness – reflections on learning: Dr Jeannette Golden – Mercers Institute for Successful Ageing (MISA): Presentation
• A public health approach to loneliness?: Prof Thomas Prohaska – George Mason University: Presentation

List of the most common scales for loneliness and isolation