Independent Age also conducted research in the same year into the emerging crisis of isolation for older men which found that men aged 80 and over were more likely to report high levels of loneliness (12%) compared to men aged 65-79 (7%). The research also found that older men are more isolated than older women with 14% of older men experiencing moderate to high social isolation compared to 11% of women.
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