Silver Line Telephone Friendship Service for Promoting Health and Wellbeing

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INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
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CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................1
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................2

INTRODUCTION
As around nineteen percent UK population is ageing. The society has still the inaccurate
assumption about the ageing and the experience of ageing in UK is getting worse. As ageing
people face lot of challenges such as poverty, discrimination, loneliness as well as poor health.
The purpose of this essay is to focus on silver line telephonic friendship service. This service
help the people who feel loneliness. As loneliness is predominating problem in older people than
the general population. Nearly half of the population of UK aged above 70 live on their own due
to which they face many other problems such as increase risk of dementia, stroke as well as heart
disease. The essay describe about the silver line, it is a service which link the older people via
one memorable number to many other existing services for older people in UK.
MAIN BODY
Silver Line telephone friendship service
The current scenario of UK population health impact on social isolation, loneliness along
with the other aspects. The social isolation is the major risk factor for human mortality,
morbidity as well as well-being. It is an emerging potential risk factors for mortality. As term
loneliness or social isolation are frequently interchangeable. The social isolation occur due to
lack of social contact and it is caused by an absence of relationship with family friends and from
the social community. The social isolation and loneliness is a complex phenomenon. The social
isolation, loneliness and some other social connection can affect certain health conditions as well
as affect the quality of life. This essay is focus on the evidence base impact, as social isolation or
loneliness affect on a wide range among the old age population. It affect physical, cognitive as
well as mental health.
Impact on health outcomes
There is a strong evidence which linking that social isolation and loneliness are one of the main
cause of increasing mortality rate in older age population in UK. There are following evidence
which affect on different aspects of social connection on health of old age people such as
Cardiovascular disease and Stroke, Dementia, Depression and some chronic health conditions.
The social isolation and loneliness extensively cause the cardiovascular disease and
stroke in old age population of UK. A meta-analysis data set show that the poor social
relationship has increased the risk of heart disease in older people. The data from the UK found
that the lonely and isolated person were increased risk of acute myocardial infarction and stroke.
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