Phone support can ‘reduce loneliness and depression’ in older people – study
Offering older people psychological support over the phone could help to reduce depression and loneliness, a new study suggests.
Researchers said that people who had a type of therapy, delivered via a weekly phone call over eight weeks, showed improvements in mental health.
The study, led by academics from the , Hull York Medical School and at Tees, Esk and across and Wales.
