Did you know there's an emotional support phone line for older adults?

(KRON) – The holidays tin beryllium hard for people, particularly those who whitethorn person mislaid loved ones successful their lifetime. The California Department of Aging reminds aged California residents of the Friendship Line.

The Friendship Line, according to the Institute of Aging, is an affectional enactment telephone enactment for older adults and adults surviving with disabilities. 

According to a video provided by the Institute of Aging, the telephone enactment serves arsenic a “human-to-human connection.” Older individuals who are “lonely and socially isolated” are encouraged to interaction the Friendship Line.

The Friendship Line has been operating for much than 50 years and was founded by Dr. Patrick Arbore.

Dr. Arbore began his vocation volunteering astatine San Francisco Suicide Prevention, wherever helium saw the request for specialized enactment and involution successful elders, prompting him to recovered the Center for Elderly Suicide Prevention and Grief-Related Services and Friendship Line.

Per the Institute connected Aging, unit and volunteers respond to much than 11,000 inbound and outbound Friendship Line calls per month.

The relationship hotline telephone fig is (888) 670-1360.