Doctors have known for some time that loneliness is bad for the mind.

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Most people have suffered from loneliness at some point.

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Here are 7 tips to help you protect your aging parents from some of the risks of loneliness.

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We need to find ways of not just meeting basic needs but improving wellbeing, reducing loneliness, and restoring some pleasure to their life.

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While Ramon has battled loneliness in America, Ana has had to navigate some cultural pitfalls.

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Some individuals are at greater risk than others for feelings of loneliness because of development issues -- for example, shy children who are excluded or rejected by other children, he said.

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But Professor Monk believes some of the most important developments will be to solve the isolation and loneliness people can feel.

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But some of us, the weirdos especially, are less lucky and fall mostly into loneliness when young.

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All I could do was tell her some of the climbing techniques I'd relied on to help manage the fear and the loneliness, and listen to her anger and bewilderment as she climbed it now herself.

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