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Growing old in a London borough; the shrinking personal community and how volunteers help to maintain it
Year of publication: 2006Author: Gray, Anne
Publisher: ESRC / London South Bank University
Summary: Research with elderly people, found that loneliness was one of their biggest problems. Users of older people’s day centres and befriending schemes are often childless and is need for institutional change to ensure childlessness does not mean isolation.
Link to document: www.lsbu.ac.uk/families/workingpapers/familieswp17.pdf
