Tackling loneliness among the elderly, according to experts inefficient
The program publicly funded programs to combat loneliness among older people do not work. Two professors and an elderly physician advocate in the NRC for a different approach.
8 percent of the Dutch, according to research structural lonely, a large part of that group is older. In 2013, according to the NRC spent nearly a million to a program to combat this problem and will be paid 150,000 euros a collaboration of care and welfare.
In several towns lonely people can call a hotline or go for volunteers past the door. According to sociology professor Jenny Gierveld does not.
"The characteristic of people who feel lonely is true that they withdraw. Then you really can not go pick up the phone to tell you that you are lonely. Such initiatives often backfire."
Wrong idea
initiatives in accordance with the three experts from the wrong idea. Professor of geriatric medicine Joris Slaets said in the newspaper that organized, can not counteract professional contact loneliness. "It has a very different emotional connotation than one person relationship. Only a true, loving relationship with a neighbor takes loneliness away."
According to experts, a "convoy" of people to combat loneliness. "Relatives, friends, but also people for drinking only tea cozy.
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