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• A deeper understanding of AFib could lower risk

  06-06-2018 20:37
  More than 2.5 million Americans are living with Atrial Fibrillation (AFib). AFib is an irregular heartbeat that can lead to blood clots, stroke, heart failure and other heart-related complications.
  
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• TV’s Dr Hilary Jones officially opens Nottinghamshire care home

  06-06-2018 11:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Residents at Chetwynd House Care Home have welcomed TV’s Dr Hilary Jones today as he declared the luxury care home officially open.
   
  The good doctor gave the family-run care home a ‘clean bill of health’ as he met members of the care team, residents and their families in a special ceremony.
   
  ““I have visited many care homes and have to say that I am very impressed with Chetwynd House,” he remarked.
   
  “The dedication from the care team co
  
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• Hotelier and philanthropist pledges to champion the rights of those living with dementia

  06-06-2018 10:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  Hotelier and philanthropist Laurence Geller has pledged to champion the rights of people who are living with dementia after his appointment as an Alzheimer’s Society Ambassador.
  This signals his determination to support the nation’s leading dementia charity on its mission to enable people with dementia to live the lives they want and be included in society. It sits alongside his commitment to providing specialist dementia care homes and the building of a dementia training and researc
  
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• Lincolnshire care home raises own brood of chicks

  06-06-2018 10:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Residents at Neale Court Care Home in North Hykeham have been nurturing their own brood of chicks this week. Everyone at the care home has been enchanted by the progress of the chicks as they’ve emerged from their eggs and started growing.
  The eggs are delivered from ‘Incredible Eggs’ a specialist breeder and are a mix of pure, rare breed and hybrids chicks. The hatchlings will stay at the care home for around 10 days after which they are returned to the farm where they can be
  
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• Catch that pigeon now!

  06-06-2018 09:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  A Lancashire Care Home has reunited a lost racing pigeon with its owners, after finding out that it was released over 250 miles away in Portsmouth.  
  Stocks Hall Care Home, in the delightful rural village of Mawdesley in Lancashire, welcomed an unexpected visitor of the feathered kind.  
  Home Manager, Faye Cooper says “A pigeon was spotted walking around the Sensory Gardens of the Home, spending time at the bird feeders dotted around.”
   
  On closer inspection
  
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• Blairgowrie care home goes green with recycled benches

  06-06-2018 08:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  A Blairgowrie care home has demonstrated its green credentials with an investment in four new benches, which are made from recycled milk cartons, in a bid to brighten up its garden in an eco-friendly way.
  Muirton House, which is based on Essendy Road, purchased the recycled benches, which are made from 4,492 four-litre milk cartons. This repurposing means the cartons were not left in landfills, where they would take approximately five years to decompose.
  The benches were bought from Marmax, a co
  
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