Loneliness: Social Connection Boosts Survival
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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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