social isolation

collocation in English

meaningsofsocialandisolation

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social
adjective
uk
/ˈsəʊ.ʃəl/us
/ˈsoʊ.ʃəl/
relating to activities in which you meet and spend time with other people and that happen during the time when you are ...
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isolation
noun[U]
uk
/ˌaɪ.səlˈeɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌaɪ.səlˈeɪ.ʃən/
the condition of being alone, especially when this makes you ...
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(Definition ofsocialandisolationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Coping with loneliness andsocialisolationin later life : a pilot study.
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Conceptualizing different developmental pathways to and fromsocialisolationin childhood.
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This is, in principle, always desirable, but it can, in practice, lead tosocialisolationthat is ethically problematic.
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Spatial isolation and status had been traded forsocialisolationand solidarity.
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The disclosure of infection could lead to domestic violence and/or abandonment, unemployment, andsocialisolation.
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The many faces ofsocialisolationin childhood.
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Provision is necessary for alternative means of transportation so that a driving prohibition does not lead tosocialisolationand frustration.
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Regardless of the evidence supporting activity theory, it does appear thatsocialisolationis insufficient to explain latelife depression.
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The statements make up six dimensions of subjective health: physical mobility, pain, sleep, energy, emotional reactions, andsocialisolation.
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Not surprisingly therefore, paranoid personality traits andsocialisolationare frequent premorbid characteristics of elderly patients who develop late paraphrenia.
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A significant number of women left thesocialisolationof their homes to par ticipate in ways that quickly and robustly enhanced their vitality.
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Yet service providers are expected in practice to play a central role in the identification and management ofsocialisolation.
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Next, we explore the literature onsocialisolationand professional practice and identify some important gaps in the existing research data.
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Clearly, then, practitioners' definitions ofsocialisolationreflected the dichotomised model which prevails in research literature.
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This article reviews the empirical literature published over the last 20 years on the effectiveness of interventions that targetsocialisolationamongst older people.
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