In the diary of an elderly woman who lived alone, she often penned:  “No one called today.”
Unknown

What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
Dag Hammarskjold

Don’t forget, a person’s greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated. Unknown

Never lose sight of the fact that old age needs so little but needs that little so much.
Margaret Willour

You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world’s happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.
Dale Carnegie

There is a treasury of blessing to be found in sharing with shut-ins; they have much to give and often no one to give it to.
William J. Johnston