Alone
we can be broken, standing together we are
invincible
- Nā Kīngi
Tāwhiao
Disabled people are four times
more likely than non-disabled people to experience severe
loneliness, with 10 percent reporting they feel lonely most
or all of the time, a new report says. The full report is here.
The
report,
Still Alone Together, by the Helen Clark
Foundation and WSP updates their first
report on loneliness released in June 2020 and provides
a fuller picture of New Zealand’s levels of
loneliness.
Across the whole population, self-reported
loneliness increased immediately after the nationwide
lockdown, and increased further later in the year, perhaps