Doctors Are Beginning to Prescribe Social Activities
To combat social isolation and loneliness, and the associated health risks, doctors are prescribing art, gardening, and bingo By Katrina…
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Between Ourselves: Find Your Team
Photo: iStock/IPGGutenbergUKLtd. By Murray Lewis For those among you for whom any mention of baseball functions much as a sleeping pill might, I should mention now that while the following contains references to baseball, that’s not the real subject…
The UK Now Has a Minister for Loneliness
Social isolation is as bad for you as smoking 15 cigarettes a day; the British government is taking the problem…