An Island charity is calling for more volunteers to offer friendship to elderly people - to prevent a crisis of loneliness.
Last week the UK health secretary Jeremy Hunt said hundreds of thousands of people in England suffered 'chronic loneliness, a problem he branded a 'national shame.'
Live at Home schemes around the Isle of Man send volunteers to spend time with elderly people - acts of kindness that pay dividends.
Last year the Manx branch, part of a bigger UK charity, won a nationwide accolade for the number of lives they'd helped improve.
Live at Home manager in the Isle of Man Jo Dixon:
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