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• Antioxidant reduces risk for second heart attack, stroke

  04-09-2018 22:46
  Doctors have long known that in the months after a heart attack or stroke, patients are more likely to have another attack or stroke. Now, an article explains what happens inside blood vessels to increase risk -- and suggests a new way to treat it.
  
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• In praise of do-gooders and those who care | Letters

  04-09-2018 18:31
  Clodagh Kennedy, Scott Sinclair and Karen McLaughlin on our need to support each otherIt is interesting how the act of caring for others and actively trying to help is seen so negatively (Why there’s nothing sexy about a goody two shoes, 28 August).The phrase do-gooder is an insult and encourages people to feel a sense of shame if they care and want to make a difference. It perpetuates an idea that we should focus on ourselves, at the cost of others. And presumes that we have not
  
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• Clare in the community: the allure of the dancing PM

  04-09-2018 16:00
  Men’s Group can be a lonely experience Continue reading...
  
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• Children in care are being failed – thanks to Tory short-termism | Daniel Lavelle

  04-09-2018 12:33
  When I was in care the system was strained. A Manchester Evening News report shows that it’s now all but brokenI grew up in care, alongside 20 other children with whom I shared foster homes and children’s homes in Manchester. In May, I wrote a piece for the Guardian about the time I spent looking for those kids later in life. I only managed to find a handful, but all of those I did see again – 15 years later – had grappled with severe hardship since leaving the care syste
  
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• I'm tired of being called 'just a carer'. Looking after people is a proper job

  04-09-2018 11:59
  Care workers do a professional, fulfilling role. We want proper employment contracts – and a thank you wouldn’t go amissGuardian Jobs: see the latest vacancies in social care
  It’s the look on the face of an elderly person when I make them smile as we joke and play games. Or the pleasure I get when I support a person I look after to have a day out.I love the work I do, looking after people and putting smiles on their faces every day. There is nothing quite as rewarding as being
  
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• Third outstanding CQC rating for Care UK

  04-09-2018 11:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  A company-wide commitment to delivering great care has seen Care UK achieve its third outstanding rating from the CQC.
   
  Cleves Place care home in Haverhill, Suffolk has just joined Mildenhall Lodge, also in Suffolk, and Broadwater Lodge in Surrey in the small group of homes nationally to receive this very top rating from the regulator.
   
  Of a total of 102 Care UK homes in England inspected by the CQC,  another 83 are now rated as good. Nine of these 83 have already seen one of th
  
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• 99 year old Harriet wins tallest sunflower competition

  04-09-2018 09:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Harriet Squires, 99, has reaped the reward of her years of gardening know-how by winning a sunflower growing competition.
   
  “I’ve been singing to it,” reveals Harriet when asked if she had any secret growing tips. “Come on darling, keep growing,’ sang Harriet each day of the competition which started at the beginning of summer.
  It turns out Harriet is no stranger to gardening success, she won a Derby City Council award in 2000 for the Best Hanging Baskets which
  
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• Extra care housing is abuzz over wall art

  04-09-2018 08:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  A large exterior wall at Brunelcare’s Colliers Gardens extra care housing scheme, in Fishponds, Bristol, has been transformed in the last few days with wall art featuring a landscape scene – with ‘wow factor’!
   
  Julie Walker, Centre Manager, spoke to tenants this summer about the rather plain bland wall that four of the flats were looking on to. The other areas of the scheme had amazing garden views; however this was an area that was identified as in need of a faceli
  
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