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HCCA Submission to the ACT Legislative Assembly Inquiry into Loneliness & Social Isolation​

Published: 2024

In this Submission, HCCA provides input from our members on: 

• the Inquiry’s process and conceptualisation of social isolation & loneliness; 

• general impacts of and factors affecting social isolation & loneliness 

• impacts of social isolation & loneliness on specific groups; 

• structural and economic impacts on social isolation & loneliness; and 

• suggestions on finding and developing solutions. 

The volume of responses received from HCCA members demonstrates the breadth and depth of the impact of social isolation and loneliness in their lives and the lives of their families and friends. Members expressed that the Inquiry is important, relevant and timely.