Still Alone Together

Following on from our 2020 report on lockdown loneliness, Deputy Director and WSP in New Zealand Fellow Holly Walker has completed a 2021 update. The new report draws upon new statistics, and highlights the disproportionate loneliness felt by disabled people in Aotearoa New Zealand. The report also looks at how loneliness changed as the nation came out of Level 4 lockdown, and the progress made against the recommendations made in the original paper.

You can also download an Easy Read Summary of the report here.

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Latest Media

• NZHerald: Shane Te Pou: Loneliness is a silent pandemic in Aotearoa (December, 2023).
• Stuff: We're at risk of leaving some marginalised and excluded in a post-Covid world (April, 2021).
• The Spinoff: A community alone: Why loneliness is a disability issue (April, 2021).
• Stuff: Loneliness: Disabled people, unemployed people, young people and sole parents are groups most affected (April, 2021).
• Stuff: 'There’s a lot of shame around loneliness, but we’re all lonely sometimes' (April, 2021).
• Newshub: Disabled four times more likely to report feeling lonely most of the time - report (April, 2021).
• RNZ: The Panel with Heather Roy and Anton Matthews (Part 2) (April, 2021).
• Mahi - The Disability Employment Podcast Transcript of Mahi Episode 18, Holly Walker from the Helen Clark Foundation discusses their "Still Alone Together" report (April, 2021).