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• Alzheimer’s Society comments on of new Secretary of State for Health and Social Care

  10-07-2018 17:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  Commenting on the appointment of Matt Hancock as the new Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Jeremy Hughes, Chief Executive Officer at Alzheimer’s Society said:
   
  “Having already shown his commitment by becoming a Dementia Friend, Alzheimer’s Society looks to the new Secretary of State for Health and Social Care to deliver real change for people with dementia who, for too long, have been treated as second class citizens by our health and social care system.&rdqu
  
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• Clare in the community: barking up the wrong tree

  10-07-2018 16:00
  Clare takes her clients for a walk on the wild sideContinue reading...
  
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• Ditch the pills. We’ve found a better medicine for old age | Stewart Dakers

  10-07-2018 15:00
  Social prescribing allows GPs to offer activities and support for older people. They just need to know what’s availableWe seem rather short of the older generation.” The remark was made by the chair of a meeting I attended last month of an old people’s network, organised by the county council adult care department, where I was indeed the only representative of the older generation. The other 30 or so people were from agencies and charities engaged with the crumbly generation.Th
  
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• World Trade Center response crews may face higher heart attack, stroke risk

  10-07-2018 13:19
  Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may increase the risk for stroke and heart attack in both male and female city workers and volunteers who cleaned debris in the aftermath of the World Trade Center plane attack on Sept. 11, 2001. The study sheds light on long-term consequences of PTSD 11-15 years after the event occurred in a general population.
  
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• We want to attract the right people with the right values to social care | Caroline Dinenage

  10-07-2018 12:30
  New government recruitment campaign will raise the image and profile of the sectorThis year we are celebrating the 70th anniversary of our amazing NHS, but we must not forget that adult social care is also marking 70 years. The National Assistance Act 1948 that created many of the core elements of the modern social care system came into effect on the same day as the NHS act.In the NHS’s birthday month we have heard many stories of the dedicated nurses, doctors and support staff who have be
  
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• Woking care home nursery club encourages new friendships

  10-07-2018 10:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Bernard Sunley care home in Woking, run by charity Friends of the Elderly, has started running a bimonthly nursery club within the home, which is proving to be a fantastic success.
  A group of up to ten children aged between one and four attend twice a month with their childminders. They spend time in the home’s coffee shop where there is a great selection of toys for the children and where residents can join them to play and chat. The children also walk around the home visiting residents i
  
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• Derbyshire care home helps to blow away the stigma around dying

  10-07-2018 09:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Milford House Care Home in Milford, Belper, has been helping its residents to start the difficult conversations about sensitive subjects as part of ‘Dying Matters Week’.
   
  On Friday all the residents went outside to attach notes, which they had written during the week expressing their end of life wishes, to balloons filled with helium. These were then let go and the residents watched them sail away. 
  Dying Matters Awareness Week, held in May each year, aims to help people t
  
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• Up, up and away as Muriel, 99 takes her first balloon flight

  10-07-2018 08:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Muriel Scott, at 99, is on cloud nine having just been up, up and away on her first beautiful balloon flight.
  For Muriel it was a long-held wish come true. She said: “I used to look up at hot air balloons and long for the experience of floating among the clouds and looking down over the countryside and this flight was everything I wanted it to be.”
  Muriel always remembers her older brother Jim talking to her about riding in a hot air balloon and this is what started her wanting to ex
  
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• It’s now clear: austerity is bad for your health | Dawn Foster

  10-07-2018 07:00
  Cuts to preventive healthcare have been devastating – especially for the poorest. It feels like the Tories are waging class warMost people pass through the doors of a hospital as a last resort. By the time you reach a bed, you’ve probably made a lot of small-scale decisions that, if they didn’t cause your affliction, may have exacerbated your symptoms. We know exercise usually improves health, that smoking, drinking and eating poorly have all manner of negative fallouts, and th
  
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