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Low-tech solution for combating loneliness

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Loneliness fuels potentially deadly health problems including heart disease, stroke, dementia, anxiety, depression.

For CBS Sunday Morning , our chief medical correspondent, Doctor John Lebouc , found a surprising low tech solution from Zimbabwe .

In 2006 , Doctor Chibanda introduced the Friendship Bench , a talk therapy program that brings mental health care directly into underserved communities.

Doctor John Lafouc . would sit on a bench in Central Park and talk with older people.

A lot of older people would come to talk with him.

He put a sign one day it said free advice and all sorts of people came.

I love that. It really does boost your don't just pick up the phone and call that's or text or text.

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informal

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English

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16

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