preprint · medRxiv (2025)
Autonomous conversational agents for loneliness, social isolation, depression and anxiety in older people without cognitive impairment: Systematic review and meta-analysis
In plain English
A review pooling evidence on whether autonomous conversational agents (social robots, chatbots, embodied agents) reduce loneliness, isolation, depression and anxiety in older adults without cognitive impairment, with subgroup analysis by agent type.
loneliness
older adults
meta-analysis
embodied conversational agents
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