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Digital Friends: Can Chatbots Save the Elderly from Depression?
๐ต The Scene: The Epidemic of Silence Four o'clock in the afternoon. The house is completely silent. Eighty-five-year-old Eleanor sits in her armchair, staring at the phone. Her children are busy with their fast-paced careers; her grandchildren are absorbed by their screens. Her friends have mostly passed on. The only voice she hears all day is the television. This silence is deafening. It breeds rumination, severe anxiety, and a crushing sense of worthlessness. The World Hea
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