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• Brain study paves way for therapy for common cause of dementia

  04-07-2018 22:15
  Scientists have uncovered a potential approach to treat one of the commonest causes of dementia and stroke in older people. Studies with rats found the treatment can reverse changes in blood vessels in the brain associated with the condition, called cerebral small vessel disease. Treatment also prevents damage to brain cells caused by these blood vessel changes, raising hope that it could offer a therapy for dementia.
  
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• Australia agrees to take seriously ill refugee girl from Nauru as case reaches court

  04-07-2018 20:00
  At least seven sick children have been moved from offshore detention after court orders or just before hearings The Australian government has agreed to move a seriously ill refugee girl from Nauru to Australia within days. She is at least the seventh child to be moved from offshore islands after legal action on their behalf.The young girl, who has been held on Nauru with her parents for several years and whose name and age cannot be reported, is suffering from acute mental health issues. Related
  
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• Sheffield care home launches new dementia care service

  04-07-2018 10:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Pictures and memories of bygone Sheffield are set to provide a pivotal link with residents at the city’s newest dementia care service.
  Fulwood Lodge Care Home has hand-picked key landmarks from the city as a way to connect with the minds of residents set to fill 17 new beds.
  Roy Young, managing director of Sheffield-based Silver Healthcare that runs the home, said: “At the heart of high quality dementia care is the need to ensure residents are kept calm, safe and happy. Loss of short
  
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• Belong care village hosts Crewe’s first ever Silver Pride event

  04-07-2018 09:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Crewe Mayor Brian Roberts was amongst special guests, members of the public and heads of local community organisations who attended Crewe’s first ever Silver Pride event in June – a celebration of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender culture, especially for older people. The event was organised and hosted by local state-of-the-art care village Belong Crewe.
   
  A full afternoon of LGBT-themed activity included musical performances, fancy dress competitions and open mic acts. Amo
  
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• YouTube sensation gives a warm musical Cwtch to care home residents

  04-07-2018 08:15 via feedproxy.google.com
   
  Singer Kate Watkiss gently sings to resident Peter Wiggins.
  A dozen singers including a vocalist whose version of a Welsh classic has had a million hits on YouTube gave one-to-one personal performances care home residents.
  The tuneful interlude at Pendine Park’s Bryn Seiont Newydd dementia centre in Caernarfon was masterminded by freelance community art practitioner Pauline Down.
  She recruited the singers to provide a musical Cwtch or hug for the residents, performing songs written
  
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• The only way to protect our NHS? Set up a National Care Service | Sonia Sodha

  04-07-2018 07:00
  The founding principles of the health service must be extended to social care. Otherwise the NHS will be run into the groundThere’s so much of modern life we take for granted, but not the NHS. It has a special place in British hearts, outranking the armed forces and the royal family in what makes us proud to be British. But the NHS is facing two existential tests on its 70th birthday, both of which exert big cost pressures.Back in the 50s, much of its work involved doling out treatment for
  
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• The only way to protect our NHS? Fund social care | Sonia Sodha

  04-07-2018 07:00
  The founding principles of the health service must be extended to social care. Otherwise the NHS will be run into the groundThere’s so much of modern life we take for granted, but not the NHS. It has a special place in British hearts, outranking the armed forces and the royal family in what makes us proud to be British. But the NHS is facing two existential tests on its 70th birthday, both of which exert big cost pressures.Back in the 50s, much of its work involved doling out treatment for
  
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• Risks to children 'the biggest social justice challenge of our time'

  04-07-2018 01:01
  Children’s commissioner seeks more help for young people in vulnerable family situationsThe children’s commissioner for England has said the risks faced by deprived young people are “the biggest social justice challenge of our time”, after publishing research that suggests one in six minors live in families affected by parental addiction, mental illness or domestic violence.Anne Longfield said that of the estimated 2.1 million children in England in vulnerable family situ
  
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