‘The invisible enemy’: disability, loneliness and isolation.

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

doi:10.1080/09687599.2018.1476224

‘The invisible enemy’: disability, loneliness and isolation.

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

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Abstract

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 overre-
presentation 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

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1138-1159
Journal	Disability and Society
Volume	33
Issue number	7
Early online date	19 Sept 2018
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2018.1476224
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 19 Sept 2018

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