https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...guresondeathsregisteredbyareaofusualresidence
I don't think they issue stats for how many people were lonely when they died. Probably too late to ask them. And no point asking their relatives, because they wouldn't know, would they.
They can. Two masked visitors, if the care home will allow them. Of course, not all care home residents have only two relatives, and they can't hug them, and they can't see them smile, and particularly for dementia sufferers, a visit from someone you can't recognise isn't the same as a visit from your son or daughter who gives you a hug. But they can hold hands, as long as they are aware that it might put their elderly, sick relatives at risk of dying from coronavirus (if both lots of vaccinations and the multiple lateral flow tests haven't worked).
OK. Let me rephrase it. 50,000 people are currently in their last month of life, and are unable to a greater or lesser degree to see their friends and relatives. There are no official statistics to say whether any of them, or how many, are feeling lonely or alone. It is at least a possibility that some of them are felling lonely.
