In-Person Contact Linked With Lower Levels of Loneliness in Older Adults

August 28, 2024 • by Esther Robards-Forbes

Despite our hopes for technological ways to bridge connections between older adults and social partners, phone and digital contact cannot alleviate loneliness in the same way.

A younger man with dark hair and a beard, left, sits beside an older man with white hair. The younger man has his arm around the shoulders of the older man. Overlaid on the image are digital distortion lines.

Photo-Illustration: Martha Morales


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