Who founded the charity helpline The Silver Line in 2012?
The Silver Line The Silver Line The Silver Line is the only free confidential telephone helpline offering information, friendship and advice to older people in the United Kingdom that's available 24 hours a day. The helpline was established by Dame Esther Rantzen, who founded the children's helpline ChildLine in 1986. She wrote about her loneliness following the death of her husband Desmond Wilcox in 2000, and described loneliness among the elderly as "a creeping enemy" which "erodes confidence". Dame Esther was invited to a conference addressing the isolation of elderly people held by the Campaign to End Loneliness and the Centre for Social
The Silver Line at night-time and weekends, when no other helpline is available specifically for older people who may be lonely, isolated or confused, while 85% of callers each month are contacting The Silver LIne for the first time. In December 2016, the charity announced that the helpline had moved into its own offices in Blackpool where staff directly employed by The Silver Line handle calls from all parts of the United Kingdom. On 17 July 2017, it was announced that HRH The Duchess of Cornwall had become Patron of the charity. <nowiki>https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/07/16/double-portrait-markduchessof-cornwalls-70th-birthday/</nowiki> http://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/829655/Camilla-Duchess-of-Cornwall-photos-birthday-charities-Silver-Line-Helpline In November 2016, Anglia Ruskin University published an evaluation