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“I’ve had patients pick up musical instruments they hadn’t played in many years, and it really helped,” says Borland. In a 2018 study at the University of California San Francisco, researchers found that older adults who sang in a community choir every week were much less lonely and more interested in life than a control group. A 2013 study found that guided poetry writing sessions were “significantly effective” in alleviating symptoms of depression in adolescents.