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• Therapy that helps people with dementia maintain lifestyles is rolled out

  29-08-2018 10:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  A technique that helps people living with dementia to see satisfying progress in achieving everyday goals, is now being trialled by Sunrise Senior Living UK.
  The University of Exeter is leading a programme to train carers in goal-orientated cognitive rehabilitation. It entails practitioners working with people living with dementia and their carers to establish goals that are most important to helping people maintain their lifestyle. These differ depending on the individual, ranging from cooking
  
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• New manager for Oaklands House care home

  29-08-2018 09:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Oaklands House care home in Reydon near Southwold, is proudly announcing the appointment of its new manager, Hanro Steytler.  Hanro, who is from Trimley St Mary near Felixstowe, joins the team with years of experience in the care industry and is looking to implement work to take the home towards an outstanding rating.
   
  Oaklands House has an enviable reputation in the local area and is currently rated as ‘Good’ by the Care Quality Commission.  Hanro will be working on
  
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• Wellgate Care has appoints a new Director of Care

  29-08-2018 08:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  High-end care provider Wellgate Care, which specialises in support for young people and adults with learning disabilities and physical disabilities, has appointed a new Director of Care after acquiring Folkestone-based MNP Group in May. 
  The Group appointed Debbie Smith, who has more than 20 years of experience in health and social care, to drive forward the quality of the services and ensure the providers’ expansion. Her role will involve growing the business, identifying new opport
  
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• One of the best-kept secrets of the UK welfare system is at risk

  29-08-2018 07:00
  Campaigners are worried vital funding that keeps people out of hospital could disappearWhen their boiler broke down, Trudy and Brian Urquhart couldn’t afford to replace it and managed for months with heat from a coal fire and water boiled on the stove. But when Brian faced a major cancer operation last winter, it looked unlikely that the hospital would allow him to return home to such conditions.Thanks to a Macmillan nurse who was supporting the Urquharts, the couple discovered that t
  
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• England the ‘poor man’ of developed countries when it comes to funding care for older people

  29-08-2018 01:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  A new report commissioned by Age UK highlights the different approaches to long-term care across a group of countries in the developed world, and how they compare to the system in England.
   
  The Incisive Health report ‘An international comparison of long-term care funding and outcomes: insights for the social care green paper’ set out to explore key characteristics and outcomes of the social care systems operating in some other advanced nations, with a view to seeing what lesson
  
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