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Examining the optimal factors that promote implementation and sustainability of a network intervention to alleviate loneliness in community contexts

Jaimie Ellis Orcid Logo, Karina Kinsella, Elizabeth James Orcid Logo, Tara Cheetham‐Blake, Madeleine Lambrou, Alexandra Ciccognani, Anne Rogers, Becky Band Orcid Logo

Health & Social Care in the Community, Volume: 30, Issue: 6

Swansea University Author: Becky Band Orcid Logo

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Community environments have the potential to alleviate loneliness and social isolation as they offer opportunity for sociality and to expand personal social network connections. Implementing a social network intervention in community environments to connect people to who are at risk of loneliness or...

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ISSN: 0966-0410 1365-2524
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