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Neighbourhood Support North Shore

Can you be the connection that helps improve someones life and helps them meet others?

Neighbourhood Support isn't just about reporting and reducing crime in neighbourhoods, Its about connecting and creating opportunities to enrich your street.

Can you help make the difference?

Preventing social isolation

All of us are social beings by nature, and feeling isolated can often have a negative impact on our well-being and health outcomes. Keeping in touch with the people we know can have many benefits for our physical health, mental health and wellbeing.

Did you know that…

About half of older New Zealanders experience some level of loneliness in our lives.

Older people are particularly vulnerable to social isolation or loneliness due to loss of friends and family, mobility or income?

A person can be socially isolated, but not lonely?

lacking social connections is as damaging to our health as smoking 15 cigarettes?

Loneliness and social isolation are not the same thing?

Become a Street contact for Neighbuorhood Support and help connect the people that live in your street,
For more information or to join us email admin@neighbourhood.org.nz

Social isolation checklist

The Office for Seniors has released a checklist to help people determine if they, or someone they know, is at risk of becoming socially isolated.


www.superseniors.msd.govt.nz...