There is evidence that a regular visit for older people from a friendly face reduces pressure on the health serviceEvery Tuesday at 2 o’clock Pat Little receives a visitor. For an hour tea is made and drunk,biscuits are eaten and the world is build to rights.
Pat, 88, or receives no medical intervention or prescription when Maggie Lee comes to see her,but there is growing evidence that the weekly visit and thousands of others like it, back to ease pressure on the NHS simply by providing the chronically sick and the lonely elderly with someone to talk to.
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Source: theguardian.com