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Reconnecting after coronavirus – 4 key ways cities can counter anxiety and loneliness
From The Conversation Enforced distancing measures are probably changing not just our work, travel and family routines, but how we...
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The Loneliness Project
- May 8, 2020
- 1 min
COVID-19 crisis: we're all in this together, yet lonelier than ever
UQ graduate and audiologist Dr Bec Bennett discusses how loneliness can impact our health, and outlines what we can learn from people...
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The Loneliness Project
- May 8, 2020
- 1 min
Why You Need a Network of Low-Stakes, Casual Friendships
From the New York Times When I was laid off in 2015, I told people about it the way any good millennial would: By tweeting it. My hope...
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The Loneliness Project
- Feb 17, 2020
- 3 min
So many lonely people
We are, a lot of us, a great deal sadder, more anxious, more incomplete and more restless than we really need to be because of something...
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The Loneliness Project
- Jan 29, 2020
- 1 min
How To Cope With Redundancy: From Mental Health To Managing Money
From the Huffington Post Redundancy always deals a heavy blow. Coping with the financial difficulties of losing your job is often the...
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The Loneliness Project
- Jan 23, 2020
- 1 min
GPs must prescribe more than medication
By Caroline Riches in Community Care Review (December 2019) Australia’s health professionals are falling behind when it comes to...
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The Loneliness Project
- Jan 23, 2020
- 1 min
Social prescribing: Has the time come for this idea?
From the RACGP Should GPs be prescribing social groups to their more isolated patients? It was August 2016 when Dr Charlotte Hespe...
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The Loneliness Project
- Jan 23, 2020
- 1 min
Social prescribing tackling loneliness and isolation
From the RACGP Innovative trials and a high-level discussion forum have put social referrals high on the primary care agenda. When Tom*...
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The Loneliness Project
- Jan 22, 2020
- 1 min
How Men's Sheds stave off loneliness
From The Conversation. When people hear the word shed, they may think about a rickety wooden building at the bottom of a garden crawling...
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The Loneliness Project
- Nov 22, 2019
- 1 min
Brisbane City Council community coworkers pop up
If you run a small or micro business, you’re invited to a pop up co-working space at Kenmore Library on 28 November. Late last year we...
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The Loneliness Project
- Nov 22, 2019
- 1 min
myCivitas Advent Calendar
An activity each day Christmas can be a difficult time for the millions of us (one in three adult Australians) who feel lonely. The...
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The Loneliness Project
- Nov 22, 2019
- 1 min
Loneliness is a social cancer
The most striking finding from the Australia Talks national survey is simply how pervasive loneliness is in Australia today. Indeed, only...
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The Loneliness Project
- Nov 22, 2019
- 1 min
I spent five years speaking with people in nursing homes. This is what I learnt about loneliness
Loneliness is about lacking companionship, about not belonging. The problem is not quantity of social relationships, but their quality in...
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The Loneliness Project
- Nov 8, 2019
- 3 min
We pitched!
Last month we had the opportunity to pitch our vision for myCivitas at the UQ Start-up Academy pitch event. The experience helped us to...
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The Loneliness Project
- Oct 21, 2019
- 1 min
The young Australian loneliness survey
From Vic Health While young people are often well-connected to strong social structures, critical transitions that characterise youth can...
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The Loneliness Project
- Aug 27, 2019
- 1 min
Loneliness taking hold as people struggle to find sufficient work and affordable housing
From the ABC A quarter of Australians are experiencing loneliness, with young adults more affected than other age groups, according to a...
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The Loneliness Project
- Aug 27, 2019
- 1 min
The secret to living longer may be your social life
TED talk The Italian island of Sardinia has more than six times as many centenarians as the mainland and ten times as many as North...
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The Loneliness Project
- Aug 27, 2019
- 1 min
Our forgotten craving for community
From the 'School of life' We are, a lot of us, a great deal sadder, more anxious, more incomplete and more restless than we really need...
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The Loneliness Project
- Aug 27, 2019
- 1 min
Loneliness: a new public health challenge emerges
From Vic Health Loneliness is proving to be more than just part of the human condition. New research shows it’s a serious public health...
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The Loneliness Project
- Aug 27, 2019
- 1 min
Loneliness study finds one in five Australians rarely or never have someone to talk to
From the Guardian More than one-fifth of Australians rarely or never feel they have someone to talk to or turn to for help, and more than...
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