Studies indicate that, especially for seniors, having friends can improve both physical and mental health.
The benefits of being at home are: familiar surroundings, privacy, comfort and the choice of being alone or having friends and family around.
This isn't research showing that pensioners are better off having friends - it suggests that we are all likely to enjoy health benefits if we have busy social lives.
When I was discharged from the hospital, friends and family from all over came together to help me by making giant get-well cards from various schools or having friends make dinner for us on a weekly basis.
Although there was a ten year age difference, Katy loved to go off shopping with Hailey and she loved having Hailey friends around.
The lack of column inches devoted to Clydebank's demise compared to Airdrieonians only weeks before could perhaps be explained by having fewer friends in high places.
Mrs Kelley, 37, and her husband Scott Kelley, a surgeon, describe themselves as having been friends with Gen Petraeus and his family for more than five years.
When I was feeling protective of our privacy, I would write more lifestyle-focused pieces: the importance to a marriage of having close friends, for instance, or how different tastes in food can affect family dinner.
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"You want people to share the joy and impact of finishing a life-changing event, of having their friends and family there, " said Doug Thurston, director of the Big Sur International Marathon to take place April 28.
In spite of it all, Loker is quick to point out her many blessings: Being able to share a home with her family, having a job she loves, having good friends and a good health care system to help with the cost of a lifetime of surgeries.
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Having all my friends about me I couldn't just let him run off with it.
In general, having close personal friends as part of your core team is a bad idea.
Having relatives or friends in the country makes it easier to survive, as do work opportunities.
Five years ago, we bought a lake home in northern Wisconsin and generally enjoy having family and friends visit, but it gets old.
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Not only does it waste her time, but also sometimes brings her down when she sees pictures of her friends having a great time together.
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Of course, they've been helped by the massive growth of Facebook, where the games are so popular they've spawned "fan" pages devoted to complaining about having to watch friends play them.
Today is the big day, many have ran out and bought their first HDTV in preparation, some are having parties with friends, but not everyone is a big sports fan.
And the thing about a leadership contest is it's not between enemies or foes, it's a contest between friends and perhaps we all would rather not be in a position of having to decide between friends but we have to make that decision.
He said he was visiting friends, having previously lived and worked on the island.
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After all, what good is having serious money without friends and family to help celebrate the high life?
The charges levied Wednesday do not accuse the three friends of having any involvement in the April 15 attack.
When I hit 21, I realized all my friends were having fun.
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As summer time begins, I think of children playing with their friends and having a great time as they enjoy their vacation from school.
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In another study, of men in Sweden, researchers discovered that the leading risk factor for heart attack after smoking was having only a few friends.
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"Me and my friends were having a big debate, and your answer to this is going to change the rest of our lives, " he would begin.
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