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• New computational tool could help optimize treatment of Alzheimer's disease

  24-05-2018 20:17
  Scientists have developed a novel computational approach that incorporates individual patients' brain activity to calculate optimal, personalized brain stimulation treatment for Alzheimer's disease.
  
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• How Leticia Quince found her voice in care: 'I was lucky … that doesn't happen for everyone'

  24-05-2018 20:00
  Leticia Quince arrived at her foster home unable to communicate except by notes. She now helps young Indigenous foster care leavers• A numbers game: Indigenous children in care and the threat of another stolen generationWhen Leticia Quince was taken into foster care at the age of 12, she was so traumatised by her prior experiences that she would only talk with her carer by sending notes under the bedroom door.
  “I was so shut down and so scared to express my emotions that I wouldn&rsqu
  
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• Fighting to be heard in the child protection system: 'I felt like I was alone all the time'

  24-05-2018 20:00
  Barbara has had no contact with her children since 2016. She now feels caught in a world where persistence is seen as aggression• A numbers game: Indigenous children in care and the threat of another stolen generationBarbara would like a chance to see her children again, or at least know how they are. The last time she had any contact with them was December 2016 but it’s been four years since she saw them all together. Barbara has five children. The eldest is an adult now and lives cl
  
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• A cycle of family breakdown: 'I asked for help … I was judged and my kids were taken'

  24-05-2018 20:00
  Helen, who was in care as a child and then lost children for years, says support from others helped her get them back• A numbers game: Indigenous children in care and the threat of another stolen generationIn the kitchen of her new home – hopefully the last one she’ll ever need to find – Helen is looking back over the years of “living hell” she spent in the NSW child protection system, first as a child and then as a mother.Helen’s four children were taken
  
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• Celia Brackenridge obituary

  24-05-2018 18:31
  Campaigner against abuse and harassment in sportCelia Brackenridge, who has died aged 67 from leukaemia, was an international sportswoman, a campaigner for women’s causes and an authority on child protection in sport. She carried out pioneering work on the sexual abuse and harassment of young athletes and footballers by their coaches in the 1980s and 90s. Her research led her further to examine the sexual, physical and emotional abuse of all athletes, her findings being met with total deni
  
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• In-home therapy effective for stroke rehabilitation, study shows

  24-05-2018 18:08
  Stroke remains a leading cause of human disability and rehabilitation therapy can help. Supervised in-home rehabilitation therapy delivered via telemedicine can be as effective as in-clinic rehabilitation program as an alternative for stroke survivors who can't sustain in-person visits for reasons that may include high cost, difficulty traveling to a provider or few regionally available care providers.
  
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• Specialist housing and support organisations Hanover and Anchor in merger talks

  24-05-2018 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Hanover and Anchor, two organisations specialising in housing, care and support services to older people, are in talks about merging.
   
  Under the proposals, the two organisations would come together as the Anchor Hanover Group. 
  In a joint statement, Anchor Chief Executive Jane Ashcroft CBE and Hanover Chief Executive Dame Clare Tickell said: 
  “People can look forward to living longer than ever before. More specialist housing and care will be needed going forwards, with new
  
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• How addiction took hold of the UK – and cost the NHS millions

  24-05-2018 11:00
  In 1975, there were thought to be 5,000 people using heroin in England. As the numbers grew, so did the health service’s billIn 1948, the treatment of addiction was not a pressing issue for the fledgling NHS. Even in the 1970s, it was confined mainly to the treatment of a relatively small number of heroin addicts. But in the years that followed, a combination of social change and increased availability of drugs and alcohol meant that treatment became a key strand of the NHS’s work.
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• Tyneside care home resident’s wish fulfilled

  24-05-2018 10:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Alex Dawson, a resident at Waverley Lodge Care Home, fulfils his wish to take a trip to the seaside to eat “proper” fish and chips.
  Alex Dawson is one of many residents at Waverley Lodge Care Home, in Lemington, to add his name to the home’s wish list.
   
  The staff are aiming to fulfil as many wishes as possible, with the latest being Alex’s trip to the coastal town.
   
  He travelled on the bus to Newcastle and then the Metro to Cullercoats with the home’s ac
  
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• Homecare service launched in Swansea with HSBC finance package

  24-05-2018 09:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  A Swansea franchisee has opened the city’s first Right at Home homecare service after securing an £83,000 finance package from HSBC. 
  James Foley, who was awarded the Franchise in Swansea, has used the finance package to launch Right At Home in Fforestfach. The company has already created seven new jobs for the local economy, including two managerial staff and five health care professionals. The company is planning to employ a further 50 CareGivers to support Clients over the ne
  
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• Pioneering young volunteers visit Sudbury care home

  24-05-2018 08:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  Caring Homes’ Mellish House, an Outstanding Care Home in Sudbury recently hosted a YOPEY befriending event. A YOPEY Befriender is a young person who volunteers to visit a care home near their school and befriend lonely residents, many of them living with dementia. YOPEY Befrienders are easing loneliness and isolation whilst learning life lessons and vital skills for the future. As the homes residents enjoyed some interactive fun together around their newly installed ‘Magic Table&rsqu
  
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• Brave mum joins forces with care organisation to launch awareness campaign

  24-05-2018 08:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  A brave mum whose three grown-up children all have a degenerative brain condition has joined forces with a care organisation to launch a new awareness campaign.
  Kim James, from Llay, near Wrexham, made an emotional plea for more research into Huntingdon’s Disease amid renewed hope of a cure for the cruel hereditary illness.
  She is a regular visitor to Pendine Park’s Penybryn Care Home in Wrexham where son Christopher Bennett, 36, and daughter Elizabeth, 29, are both residents.
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• Parkinson’s audit reveals- Neurology and elderly care improved

  24-05-2018 07:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  The results of the 2017 UK Parkinson’s Audit, the largest dataset obtained to date about the quality of care provided to people with Parkinson’s across the UK, have now been released.Developed to address the concerns of professionals, patients and their representatives, the UK wide clinical audit assesses the quality of care provided to people with Parkinson’s, across a range of clinical areas and against national guidelines.
  The 2017 Audit reports on the care provided to 9,480
  
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