Severe Loneliness in London – who’s most at risk, and why?

A 2018 survey from Cigna found that a quarter of us don’t have people in our lives who we feel understand us.2 Only half of us have daily meaningful interactions with others. “At least two in five surveyed sometimes or always feel as though they lack companionship (43%), that their relationships are not meaningful (43%), that they are isolated from

they target the lonely, and these are very likely to be people in later life who are divorced or widowed or who, having focused singlemindedly on their careers, have arrived at late middle age only to realise that life is about to pass them by.