‘No one should have no one at Christmas’ is Age UK’s Christmas campaign as the festive date is just around the corner.
Christmas should be a happy time of year for everyone, but for some elderly people, it is a reminder that they are alone.
A third of older people living in the UK are affected by loneliness, and a predicted 280,000 people will spend Christmas Day alone. Recent statistics show that half of all older people (over 5 million) say that the TV is their main company. And almost one million (982,200) people aged over 60 feel lonelier at Christmas time.