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COMMUNITY CASE STUDY article

Front. Public Health
Sec. Aging and Public Health
Volume 12 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1425641
This article is part of the Research Topic International Perspectives on Older Adult Social Isolation and Loneliness View all 25 articles

A project co-created with the community to mitigate loneliness in midlife women

Provisionally accepted
Nadia Corsini Nadia Corsini 1*Fiona Dorman Fiona Dorman 2Jodie Scott Jodie Scott 1Amanda Wright Amanda Wright 1Deborah Turnbull Deborah Turnbull 3Carmel Williams Carmel Williams 3,4Deb Bates Deb Bates 5Bernadette Reading Bernadette Reading 5Hayley Everuss Hayley Everuss 5Fanke Peng Fanke Peng 1Rachael Pearse Rachael Pearse 6Marion Eckert Marion Eckert 1
  • 1 University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
  • 2 Premier's Council For Women, Adelaide, Australia
  • 3 University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
  • 4 Centre for Health in All Policies Research Translation, Health Translation SA, South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, Adelaide, Australia
  • 5 The Hut Community Centre, Aldgate, Australia
  • 6 Other, Adelaide, Australia

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    This paper describes how a team of researchers, policy stakeholders and community members came together to co-create prevention-oriented and community-informed solutions to address loneliness in women -The Loneliness Project. We adopt the definition of co-creation offered by Vargas et al. (2022) as a "collaborative approach of creative problem solving between diverse stakeholders at all project stages" (1). Our aim is to encourage community partnerships and collective effort to address public health approaches to loneliness by developing a shared understanding of the issue from multiple perspectives and through the co-creation process, highlighting the key factors for co-creating a funding application for a community demonstration project.

    Keywords: co-creation, Loneliness, Women, Community initiatives, funding

    Received: 30 Apr 2024; Accepted: 30 Aug 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Corsini, Dorman, Scott, Wright, Turnbull, Williams, Bates, Reading, Everuss, Peng, Pearse and Eckert. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Nadia Corsini, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia

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