Staff urged to ask simple question to identify loneliness
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Staff urged to ask simple question to identify loneliness

RCN warns that health services are struggling to deal with ‘public health pandemic’ of loneliness among older people

Nurses should ask one simple question, ‘How often do you feel lonely’, to help identify loneliness in older people, the RCN says.

Nursing Older People. 32, 1, 6-6. doi: 10.7748/nop.32.1.6.s2

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