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• Stroke researchers confirm role of frontal lesions in response to prism treatment

  18-05-2018 22:40
  Stroke researchers have confirmed that the presence of frontal cortical lesions moderated response to prism adaptation treatment after right-brain stroke.
  
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• Tory council at risk of bankruptcy calls for funding system fix

  18-05-2018 18:12
  Somerset county to close two-thirds of Sure Start children’s centres and half of librariesA Tory-controlled local authority has called on ministers to fix a “broken” system of council funding after it emerged its deteriorating finances mean it is at serious risk of going bust.Somerset county council has been told that large overspends on children’s social services, coupled with reduced government funding and the erosion of its reserves, have left its finances “in a
  
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• Natural antioxidant bilirubin may improve cardiovascular health

  18-05-2018 16:28
  A recent analysis of health data from almost 100,000 veterans, both with and without HIV infection, found that within normal ranges, higher levels of bilirubin in the blood were associated with lower rates of heart failure, heart attack and stroke.
  
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• Brain simulation reveals benefits of emergency cooling treatment

  18-05-2018 16:27
  Fresh insight into how the brain responds to medically induced cooling -- routinely used to limit head injury -- could inform treatments for related conditions and help babies at risk of birthing complications.
  
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• Surgery left Anna White unable to move – now she can stand and talk

  18-05-2018 13:21
  White sustained severe physical disabilities after an appendix operation, but has made a remarkable recoveryAnna White was 15 when medical negligence left her facing a lifetime stuck inside her body, unable to walk or talk, and communicating only by blinking at letters on a Perspex board.White sustained a major brain injury in 2011 during what should have been routine appendix surgery at Wigan’s Royal Albert Edward infirmary. While her intellectual capacity was unimpaired by the injury, An
  
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• How Anna White is learning to walk and talk again – video

  18-05-2018 13:21
  Anna White was left with severe disabilities following routine appendix surgery. She was unable to walk or talk and her life changed for ever. But after a long fight for compensation, White is now able to pay for intensive therapy. This is the story of her remarkable recoverySurgery left Anna White unable to move – now she can stand and talkContinue reading...
  
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• 'Sarah is part of my family’: the house-sharing scheme for vulnerable adults

  18-05-2018 13:04
  Shared Lives matches carers and people with support needs, promoting independence and reducing isolation - but too few people know about the service
  When Sarah* came to live with Heather Samuels and her daughter in Manchester, she had been struggling to cope at home after her mother was diagnosed with a terminal illness.The 28-year-old has Asperger’s and autism. “She didn’t want to leave the house and she didn’t really speak,” says Samuels. “Now she’s be
  
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• Belper care home transports residents back to the 1950’s

  18-05-2018 10:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  To celebrate National Care Home Open Day, Milford Care took residents at one of its homes on a trip down memory lane back to the 1950’s. 
  The doors were flung open at Spencer Grove care home in Belper, with a fun filled day of activities for the residents and staff. 
  On Friday staff at Spencer Grove donned 1950’s costumes and got all the residents together for a sing-along and hula hoop competition. This was followed by an American dinner style lunch – chips and burge
  
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• In-house gym and physiotherapy at Edinburgh care home aims to stop falls

  18-05-2018 09:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Edinburgh’s newest and most luxurious care home is to have a state-of-the-art gym and give its residents access to unrivalled health and fitness support, including innovative fall prevention classes. 
  Due to open this summer, Cramond Residence has announced an exclusive physiotherapy partnership with Balanced Edinburgh, which specialises in functional rehabilitation and fall prevention to help older people become more independent.
   
  After joining Cramond Residence, each resident
  
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• 'Care BnB'- the town where mentally ill people lodge with locals

  18-05-2018 08:36
  Residents in Geel have been taking in mentally ill strangers for hundreds of years. Now academics are looking to the small Flemish town for social care ideasMaria Lenaerts was seven years old when she came home from school one day to find a stranger at the kitchen table. It was September 1942 in Nazi-occupied Belgium.The young man looked afraid. He did not say a word to her. “He was sitting at the table like this,” she recalls, hiding her head in her arms. “He didn’t unde
  
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• Southbourne care home residents get a visit from a duo of alpacas

  18-05-2018 08:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Residents at a care home in Southbourne were thrilled when they had a visit from a duo of friendly alpacas.
   
  Glebe House residents, staff and visitors welcomed their new friends, named Baron and Jupiter, from Dunreyth Alpacas, based in Funtington, and enjoyed learning all about them. For the less mobile residents, the furry duo paid special visits to their rooms so they didn’t miss out.
   
  Julie Levy, home manager, said, “We are always looking for new and interesting activi
  
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