Does video games as a digital intervention improve depression and loneliness of elderly people?

Abstract

The world’s population is rapidly aging.1 One of the psychological problems in elderly is depression that endangers the mental and physical health of the elderly. Depression significantly reduces the quality of life.2 In the aging period, there are many social stressors that increase the risk of depression, one of these stresses is social isolation.3 Loneliness is an unpleasant, negative, painful and painful individual experience that creates a sense of impatience, uselessness, frustration, depression.4 In recent years, with the growing number of home computers, much research has been done on the emergence of new and affordable technology for the treatment of mental disorders.5 The results of neurological research, in addition to the therapeutic effects of digital-based interventions in depression, have a positive effect on the release of hormones such as endorphin and dopamine.6