SINGAPORE - While the physical health of older people here has taken a hit, their mental health has improved.
"A potential reason is that the befriending programmes are working - the Silver Generation Office has about 4,000 volunteers knocking on doors of disadvantaged elderly who tend to be living alone," said Dr Angelique Chan, the executive director of Duke-NUS Medical School's Centre for Ageing Research and Education.
However, researchers also found that being lonely was linked to lower levels of healthcare use, such as visiting doctors and hospitals.
Huh but I see more people selling tissue cleaning tables and sitting helplessly are we talking about the same Singapore
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