Toolkit Screening and Follow-up Loneliness
For the programme ‘connect! - Less lonely together', a toolkit is being developed that will make it possible to identify loneliness at various interfaces in the health and social care system and to recommend suitable follow-up measures.
Factsheet
- Schools involved School of Health Professions
- Institute(s) Nursing
- Research unit(s) Field of Innovation – Psychosocial Health
- Funding organisation Others
- Duration (planned) 01.02.2025 - 31.01.2026
- Head of project Prof. Dr. Eva Soom Ammann
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Project staff
Prof. Dr. Dirk Richter
Sabrina Gröble -
Partner
Universität Zürich, Zentrum für Gerontologie & Healthy Longevity Center: Dr. Christina Röcke
Universität Luzern, Zentrum für Hausarztmedizin und Community Care: Patricia Lampart
Hochschule Luzern, Soziale Arbeit: Dr. Aylin Wagner
Situation
Loneliness has been proven to have an impact on health and has therefore become a public health priority. In Switzerland, the ‘connect!’ programme aims to tackle loneliness among older people in particular and has developed a national action plan for this purpose. A key component of this is to enable professionals in key care areas to recognise and assess loneliness and recommend suitable follow-up measures.
Course of action
In collaboration with the University of Zurich, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and the University of Lucerne, BFH is developing a toolkit consisting of a screening instrument and a compilation of possible recommendations to counteract loneliness. The toolkit is to be used at various relevant points in the health and social care system. A consortium was put together for this purpose, which includes the care areas of nursing, primary care, psychology/psychiatry, social work and volunteer work and also takes self-management into account.
Result
In the frame of the ‘Toolkit Screening + Follow-up Loneliness’ project, the consortium agrees on a screening instrument that is suitable for all areas and easy to use in practice and compiles cross-sector follow-up measures. A draft of the toolkit will be tested in relevant fields of practice and in various language regions of Switzerland and then adapted. The aim is to propose a widely applicable toolkit that can then be disseminated as part of the ‘connect!’ action programme.
