~ [[Events]] ## Background - Helen McIntyre leading - Tom also attending ## Loneliness Evaluation - 2018 loneliness strategy said use [[The UCLA 3-Item Loneliness Scale]] and also direct question - But this didn't seem to reflect the work done - So review completed by [[Campaign to End Loneliness]] - barriers identified - Capacity of organisations - use of the measures and sensitivities - usefulness of the measures. Reliable or useful? Sensitive enough? - funder requirements "social health" - is a term beginning to use. Marmalade Trust. ## Other measures - Links to wellbeing, belonging and trust - Might help in understanding how to get out of loneliness - Transitions are a risk point in loneliness. Understanding transition might be essential to addressing it. - REconceptualising loneliness in London report. Said that those who were most at risk - poverty - living alone - being deaf and disabled. - going through life changes/ being new to London - Feeling 'different'/ experiencing discrimination. - But why? Low social connections - see www.measure-wellbeing.org - ONS questions on loneliness - Evaluation Support Scotland - see their website. What is the counterfactual? What would they have been doing if they weren't at an event today? Moving away from [[The UCLA 3-Item Loneliness Scale]] would mean we lose our 'time series'. People want to talk about it. Feedback Doesn't work if dumped in the middle of a survey. Might appear odd. Ask the question as close as possible to the intervention.