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• Breastfeeding may help protect mothers against stroke

  22-08-2018 14:26
  Breastfeeding was associated with a lower risk of stroke in post-menopausal women who reported breastfeeding at least one child. The association between breastfeeding and lower risk of stroke was stronger in women who breastfed for longer than six months and for black women.
  
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• Care UK celebrates third new care home

  22-08-2018 12:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  Following the opening of new homes in Bromsgrove and Horndean earlier this year, local people in the West Midlands were recently invited to celebrate the grand launch of Care UK’s newest care home.
   
  Mercia Grange in Sutton Coldfield is the third Care UK home to open this year with another two in Windsor and Edinburgh on track to also receive their first residents before Christmas.
   
  The care home team at Mercia Grange was joined by the Mayor of the Royal Town of Sutton Coldfield
  
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• Jewish Community’s first ever ‘Outstanding’ older people’s care home

  22-08-2018 11:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Nightingale Hammerson, a charity with a proven track record of innovating residential care to enhance the lives of residents, is delighted to announce that it has been awarded the Jewish community’s first-ever overall ‘Outstanding’ rating for its South London residential care home for older people.  The rating by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) elevates the charity’s Wandsworth home, Nightingale House – the largest individual residential care home in the UK &
  
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• Calls for primary care reform to deliver better healthcare and treatment for older people

  22-08-2018 09:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  The British Geriatrics Society’s ‘Position Statement on Primary Care for Older People’ published today calls for more care and treatment to be delivered in the community to be better meet the needs of our ageing population, and urges the Government to build this into the long term plans for the NHS.
  The BGS statement highlights the potential for significant benefits to be realised by enabling more older people with frailty to receive the care they need as close as home to as po
  
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• It isn’t a wheelchair that makes my life disabled, it’s buildings without ramps | Frances Ryan

  22-08-2018 09:00
  Making it easier to shop and travel does not make up for drastic cuts in public services. But it’s a startHow are you spending your summer? Sweltering in the heat on the train to work? Taking the kids to the cinema? Or catching a flight somewhere to unwind?If you’re disabled, you may encounter problems with any of these, as transport and recreation continue to be plagued by poor treatment. The BBC’s security correspondent, Frank Gardner, who uses a wheelchair, was stranded on a
  
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• Respite care: families at breaking point as councils slash funds | Alicia Clegg

  22-08-2018 08:00
  Charities fear tsunami of disabled children being sent to residential homes without more support for parentsWhen 16-year-old Scott Crawford was small, a psychologist taught him two words to manage his anxieties: “First? Then?’’ Framed as a question it is his way of asking “what will happen next?” and also a barometer of his wellbeing. “If Scott is highly anxious, the ‘thens’ will go on until we’ll be discussing what will happen at Christmas,&
  
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• Novel subtype of multiple sclerosis

  22-08-2018 00:52
  Researchers have discovered a new subtype of multiple sclerosis (MS), providing a better understanding of the individualized nature of the disease.
  
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