In recent years loneliness within health and social care has become more widespread especially within care homes.

60% of residents in care homes get no visitors and a total of around 1.4 million older people in the UK have reported experiencing loneliness often as said by Age UK.

Loneliness can affect an individual’s physical and emotional health. Residents in care homes don’t experience loneliness in the same ways. However, the most common symptoms of loneliness include:

• An overwhelming feeling of isolation
• Self-doubt
• Loss of confidence
• Loss of energy
• Difficulties connecting with others

Symptoms such as the one’s above can lead to more serious physical and emotional harm such as depression, anxiety, and heart diseases.

A lot of residents in care homes experience feelings of boredom regularly, reports have shown that there is a connection between loneliness and boredom. Boredom and loneliness are common amongst residents in care homes when a change from living an independent lifestyle to depending on others for the conditions of their lifestyle.

By providing your staff with resources such as our care training courses you will be able to increase the quality of care that residents receive. You can find a full list of our courses HERE