New York’s senior citizens are being given “robot pets ... an ongoing effort to combat what U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy has called an “epidemic of loneliness and isolation ...

NYSOFA announced that it will give away 4,725 additional robotic pets to seniors in ongoing efforts to combat senior loneliness. Greg Olsen, the acting director of NYSOFA, said that loneliness has ...

because who doesn’t like pets?” Further proof of improvement was seen in the participants’ UCLA Loneliness Scale scores, which decreased significantly from a mean of 49.4 to a mean of 41.4 ...