New Blog - Everybody needs good neighbours

This new guest blog for the Housing LIN by Eugene Marchese, co-founder and director at Guild Living, a timely addition to our newly created loneliness and social isolation portal, highlights the pressures of loneliness and isolation brought into focus during the Coronavirus crisis as families and friends are kept apart.

This blog suggests approaches to tackle older age loneliness head on, including creating environments where people can live meaningful, healthy, independent lives, where they socialise with family and friends easily, and still feel part of their local community. It also proposes we rethink housing for our ageing population so that we deliver inclusive communities that are welcoming to the wider public and which encourage interaction across the generations.

In addition, it touches on Guild Living academic research partnership with Bath University analysing the causes and impacts of loneliness amongst the elderly, providing valuable insight into what they want and need from their home so we can imbed this from the ground up in our communities.

The Housing LIN looks forward to working with Guild Living to report on the findings from the Bath University research project, A better way to age.