{"id":44376,"date":"2018-06-08T15:50:34","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T13:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/06\/08\/mindfulness-wont-cure-loneliness-the-tories-must-stump-up-hard-cash-moya-sarner\/"},"modified":"2018-06-08T15:50:34","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T13:50:34","slug":"mindfulness-wont-cure-loneliness-the-tories-must-stump-up-hard-cash-moya-sarner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=44376","title":{"rendered":"Mindfulness won\u2019t cure loneliness \u2013 the Tories must stump up hard cash | Moya Sarner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government has a minister to fight this modern-day epidemic, but still decimates services for those at riskAre we living through an epidemic of loneliness? Well, it depends who you ask. One Red Cross study found that more than 9 million people in the UK \u2013 almost a fifth of the adult population \u2013 are often or always lonely, and in January Tracey Crouch was appointed the so-called \u201cminister for loneliness\u201d to tackle the problem.But the experts can\u2019t decide if things are actually getting worse. At Cheltenham science festival last week Aparna Shankar, from St George\u2019s, University of London, described levels of loneliness in the UK as having been \u201cfairly consistent\u201d since the 1940s. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2018\/jun\/08\/mindfulness-loneliness-tories-minister-decimated-services\" target=\"_blank\">Mindfulness won\u2019t cure loneliness \u2013 the Tories must stump up hard cash | Moya Sarner<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government has a minister to fight this modern-day epidemic, but still decimates services for those at riskAre we living through an epidemic of loneliness? Well, it depends who you ask. One Red Cross study found that more than 9 million people in the UK \u2013 almost a fifth of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}