Letters / Digital can never replace face-to-face
A far more friendly and effective life changing initiative for elderly folk (‘Life-changing initiative for the elderly’, SN 18/8/16) would be to send real live people to visit those who are alone and or housebound.
Digital technology can and will never replace real, live face-to-face human contact.
As being of an elderly age myself and, as it so happens, very au fait with modern digital communications and technology, a visit from a real live person face to face actually physically present in the same room as me is far more beneficial to both my physical and mental well being.
Mrs Jane Puckey
Wormadale, Whiteness
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