Often far away from home, we may start by keeping in contact with our parents, as a means to meet our obligations as part of our family.

通常如果离家很远的话，我们可以从与父母保持联系开始，作为家庭一份子履行家庭义务的一种方式。

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Regular contact with friends and family enriches seniors' lives and provides a safety net - people who will notice major mood changes.

与朋友和家人的常规联络可以让老人们更有活力同时也建立了一个保护老人安全的网——人们会注意到老人主要的心情变化。

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To ensure that doesn't happen, he shifts into overdrive, calling clients while ferrying relatives to his son's christening, and breaking away from a family barbecue to contact a customer about a deal.

为了确保不发生这种情况，他开始拼命工作，在接亲戚参加他儿子的受洗仪式时还在给客户打电话，还在一次家庭烤肉聚餐时中途离开去和客户谈生意。

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On Thursday, the chief executives of seven charities - Carers UK, MS Society, Mencap, Macmillan Cancer Support, Disability Rights UK, Carers Trust and Contact a Family - wrote an open letter to Chancellor George Osborne and Mr Duncan Smith.

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Have an out of state contact, which can be a family member or friend.

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