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Digital Friends: Can Chatbots Save the Elderly from Depression?
๐ต The Scene Four o'clock in the afternoon. The house is silent. Eighty-five-year-old Eleanor sits in her armchair, staring at the phone. Her children are busy with their careers; her grandchildren are busy with their screens. Her friends are gone. The only voice she hears all day is the television. This silence is loud. It breeds rumination, anxiety, and a crushing sense of worthlessness. The World Health Organization calls loneliness a "global epidemic," with health risks r
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