University of Texas-Austin: In-Person Contact Linked With Lower Levels of Loneliness in Older Adults
August 30, 2024
August 30, 2024
AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 30 (TNSres) -- The University of Texas issued the following news release:
In-person contact helps lead to lower levels of loneliness in older people, but other ways of staying in touch, such as phoning, emailing or texting, are not as effective in lowering loneliness, a team of researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and the University of Michigan have found.
The findings, out today in the The Journals of Gerontology: Series B Psychological . . .
In-person contact helps lead to lower levels of loneliness in older people, but other ways of staying in touch, such as phoning, emailing or texting, are not as effective in lowering loneliness, a team of researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and the University of Michigan have found.
The findings, out today in the The Journals of Gerontology: Series B Psychological . . .