Home Instead presents Santa to a Senior to help with loneliness

The holiday season can be lonely for some community members. One local facility is helping senior citizens celebrate through ...
WITN

Helping senior citizens in the east during the holidays

GREENVILLE, N.C. (WITN) - Mental health experts say a growing number of senior citizens experience depression during the holidays, but there is hope. An organization in the east is making sure senior ...
People

Senior Citizens Are Getting Robotic Pets to Combat Loneliness: ‘There’s Somebody Here Listening to Me’

New York’s senior citizens are being given “robot pets” — animatronic stuffed animals — as part of an ongoing effort to combat what U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy has called an “epidemic of ...
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

ElliQ helps keep senior citizens’ feelings of loneliness at bay

It breaks my heart to hear about lonely senior citizens. Perhaps a robot would help. The ElliQ is smaller than a desk lamp but inspires great testimonials.
The Times of Northwest Indiana

Program offers holiday cheer to lonely, isolated seniors

MERRILLVILLE | Share the holiday spirit with the Be a Santa to a Senior service program, sponsored by Home Instead Senior Care. This program offers a way to brighten the lives of lonely or isolated ...
Altoona Mirror

For seniors, pets take the ‘lonely’ out of living alone

Sadly, loneliness and social isolation often mark the end of a lifetime of activity and engagement for many senior citizens. While that long-awaited retirement may put an end to the daily grind, it ...
ABC7

Volunteers connect with seniors through letter writing campaign to combat loneliness

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- COVID-19 has meant most of us can't spend time with our extended families. The Patel sisters came up with a way to cheer up their own grandparents during self-isolation. "Even ...