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Some 3.7 million (7%) adults have experienced, or a family member has experienced, a delay to a medical diagnosis, treatment or operation. The pandemic, lockdown and fears about contracting COVID-19 has left adults feeling increasingly lonely and anxious 13.7 million adults \u2013 26% of the adult population \u2013 say they have felt lonely or isolated over the past three months.<\/p>\n
Over half of women (52%) have felt stressed or anxious compared to a third of men (33%). The pandemic has highlighted the importance of financial resilience and revealed just how precarious the finances of many people are, particularly those who are self-employed, and highlights the important benefits of protecting income.<\/p>\n
Fears about the financial impact of coronavirus, impending jobs losses, disrupted education and isolation caused by lockdown are all factors behind the general population\u2019s rising anxiety levels.<\/p>\n
Source data:<\/strong> COVID-19 concerns affecting access to medical treatments Nearly 7 million adults are concerned about access to medical treatment[1], with lockdowns affecting access to medical treatments. 6.8 million[2] adults (13%) are worried that they won\u2019t be able to get medical treatment if they need it, with people aged over 55 particularly concerned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.generationwealth.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3313"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.generationwealth.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.generationwealth.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.generationwealth.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.generationwealth.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.generationwealth.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.generationwealth.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.generationwealth.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.generationwealth.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n[1] LV= surveyed nationally representative UK adults via an online omnibus conducted by Opinium in December 2020.
\n[2] Figure based on UK adult population of 52.6m<\/em>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"