Loneliness

EDM number 1178 in 2012-13, proposed by Jim Shannon on 13/03/2013.
Categorised under the topics of Elderly people, Mental health and Voluntary organisations.

That this House requests that the Government addresses the problem of Britain's elderly who are gripped by a loneliness epidemic by allocating funding to those charities and groups that work in the communities to ensure that there is no isolation of the elderly and that there is always someone available to whom they can talk or to whom they can depend.

This motion has been signed by a total of 27 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.