Sentences with phrase «combat feelings of isolation»

It is widely recognised that pets can help combat feelings of isolation by offering companionship and unconditional love, and for elderly people in particular, they can even be known to improve their quality of life.

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Earlier this year, the United Kingdom appointed a Minister of Loneliness to combat widespread feelings of isolation, seeing as half a million Brits over age 60 report that in the average week they talk to nobody or only one person.

Started in 2011, the group functions as a social safety net: It strives to help combat the isolation that current and alumni minority teachers like Bridgewater sometimes feel — an isolation that can drive them out of the classroom.

She's been fascinated to learn, for example, that a form of OCD occurs in dogs and that self - harming is found in horses that bite their own flanks and in birds that pluck their feathers — both as coping mechanisms to combat feelings of stress or isolation.