
The Silver Line is a confidential and free helpline for older people, open 24 hours a day, every day of the year.
The Silver Line aims to provide advice, information and friendship to isolated and vulnerable older people across the UK.
- The Silver Line Helpline provides three functions to support older people: a sign-posting service to link them into the many, varied services that exist around the country
- a befriending service to combat loneliness
- and a means of empowering those who may be suffering abuse and neglect, if appropriate to transfer them to specialist services to protect them from harm