From June 20th to 26th, ten volunteers from the charity spent a week in isolation with just a TV for company to experience first-hand the kind of daily seclusion felt by more than a million elderly people throughout the UK
They also wore vision-impairing glasses and special gloves to simulate the effects of arthritis in the hands.
None of the volunteers were allowed outside their homes or have visitors during the week and mobile phones and internet access was strictly forbidden.
Daily video blogs recorded by each participant can be viewed online at the Friends of the Elderly website www.fote.org.uk.
This month also saw a number of organisations coordinate projects designed to bridge the gap between teenagers and the elderly, following research showing that neither have much respect for each other.
Among the events staged were students at Loughborough University giving internet lessons to the elderly, while the Welsh Pendyrus Male Choir gave a singing masterclass to pupils at a school in Taunton
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