Extract from Westminster Hall debate on Elderly and Vulnerable People: Loneliness and Isolation - Dec 6

Patricia Gibson (North Ayrshire and Arran) (SNP):...Digitisation and the technical revolution have often left old people feeling more isolated and more left behind. Social spaces are now being replaced by machines—self-scanning at tills in supermarkets is the work of the devil in my view, and online banking again takes away yet more social contact...

For context, OPEN HERE