There's a huge socialization need to bring people into contact with the rest of the world".
As this group seems also to be the most inclined to socialize and thereby potentially transmit infection, strategies both discouraging face-to-face contact while supporting the desire and perceived benefit of socialization need to be recognized.
Girls' socialization also needs to be factored in.
In the absence of these spontaneously occurring opportunities for socialization, we need to develop programs that move beyond the Band-Aid approach, like the use of recess coaches.
That I get all the socialization I need in school.
"Kenya's free primary education policy is a measure that should now respond, even if only partly, to the education, care, socialization and emotional needs of these children.
"They need socialization," said Barbara Krueger, founder of seniorresource.com, an online clearinghouse of information for the elderly and their adult children based in Del Mar, Calif.
But there are cost-effective alternatives to the medical-care programs: adult day care centers that provide therapeutic and socialization activities and need not be in nursing homes.
What about those who are struck with chronic illness like MS, MG, CFS, spinal cord injuries, etc.? I think they would benefit from full-time care financially and it would provide much needed socialization with others in similar predicaments.
The centers are supposed to provide daytime socialization for people needing long-term care, often from nursing or home aides, but a New York Times article in April reported that some centers, which receive as much as $90 per day per person, were drawing in robust seniors, sometimes with improper giveaways.
