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Londonderry
THE CAUSE We believe that death and dying are social issues as well as a medical
issue. Sadly, many people impacted by advanced illness and age frailty report
feeling lonely and socially isolated. Loneliness and social isolation negatively
impacts a person’s mental, emotional and physical health, the damage to health
is widely accepted to be equivalent to smoking 15 cigarettes a day. The reality
is that people living with advanced illness, age frailty, their informal
caregivers and those people living with bereavement experience a ‘social death’
long before and after a physical death.
