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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Macdonald, Stephen J.
• Deacon, Lesley
• Nixon, Jackie
• Akintola, Abisope
• Gillingham, Anna
• Kent, Jacqueline
• Ellis, Gillian
• Mathews, Debbie
• Ismail, Abolaji
• Sullivan, Sylvia
• Dore, Samouka
• Highmore, Liz

Titel

'The invisible enemy': disability, loneliness and isolation

Ist Teil von

• Disability & society, 2018-08, Vol.33 (7), p.1138-1159

Ort / Verlag

Abingdon: Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Taylor & Francis

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The aim of this article is to quantitatively explore the relationship between disability, emotional loneliness and social isolation. The data analysis presents a number of statistically significant findings which illustrate that disabled people (N = 250) were at increased risk of experiencing emotional loneliness and social isolation compared with the nondisabled group (N = 355). This study identifies a number of disabling barriers which result in this overrepresentation of disabled people. The study aims to move away from a pathological explanation of linking loneliness and social isolation to disability, in order to explain this occurrence from a barrier-based approach.