Reflections on Befriending Week: Keeping hearing loss in mind.

By Dr Helen MacIntyre, Marnie Freeman and Rahaf Bash at Neighbourly Lab. After Befriending Week 2025 I wanted to highlight some ways in which befrienders and others working to address loneliness need to be keenly aware of hearing loss as a barrier to social connection. As Helen Keller famously pointed out ‘deafness separates people from […] The post Reflections on Befriending Week: Keeping hearing…