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• Exercise reduces stress, improves cellular health in family caregivers

  03-10-2018 15:03
  Exercising at least three times a week for six months reduced stress in a group of family caregivers and even appeared to lengthen a small section of their chromosomes that is believed to slow cellular aging.
  
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• The social care system is collapsing. So why the government inaction? | Adam Pike

  03-10-2018 13:37
  A Royal College of Care Workers would be a good first step in recognising their importance to societyFuture history students will enjoy speculating about the Brexit deal (or no deal) and what might have happened if this historic agreement had concluded differently. However, these studies are unlikely to consider the impact of the time and energy lost to discussions and discord on Brexit over the past two years.If they did, they would see the societal and economic impact of our failure to achieve
  
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• Care providers give guarded welcome to extra £240 m for social care

  03-10-2018 10:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Care providers have given a guarded welcome to today’s announcement of an extra £240m for the social care system this winter, as announced by Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock, at the Conservative Party Conference.The Independent Care Group (ICG) says the money must go to front-line workers and is, at any rate, a drop in the ocean compared to the overhaul of social care funding that is needed.
  Its chair, Mike Padgham said: “Every penny that is directed the way of so
  
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• Mayor of Chesterfield praises community garden

  03-10-2018 10:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Mayor of Chesterfield, Stuart Brittain, has praised emh care & support, a specialist organisation that provides day services for people with learning disabilities, for turning an unused piece of land in Mastin Moor, Derbyshire, into a community garden. 
  The Mayor was invited to officially open the garden after the emh care & support team successfully bid for a £24,000 grant from Derbyshire County Council to support two new projects on the land. 
  Joanna Grainger, Execu
  
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• Milton Keynes care home staff celebrate ‘Good’ CQC result

  03-10-2018 09:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Staff, residents and families at Lakeview Lodge Care Home in Milton Keynes are delighted with their recent CQC report, rating them as ‘Outstanding’ for responsiveness and overall ‘Good’. The report stated that “Staff went the extra mile to find out about people’s individual backgrounds, hobbies and interests, to accommodate activities that were person centred, meaningful and engaging.”
   
  “The staff team here at Lakeview Lodge Care Home go the
  
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• Regard retain ‘Gold’ status as staff ‘love coming to work’

  03-10-2018 08:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Staff at the UK’s third largest private care-provider who told inspectors from Investors in People how much they ‘love coming to work’ are the reason why their company has retained the gold status first awarded to them in 2015, according to Regard CEO Carole Edmond. 
   
  “This is a great result for us since only 46% of firms with the Investors in People gold award succeed in retaining it when reassessed after the statutory three-year period,” said Ms&nb
  
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• At 80, I’m on the last lap of life’s circuit and I don’t want to get off | Stewart Dakers

  03-10-2018 08:00
  Working with older people, I know what’s in store for me as I enter another decade. I just hope I’ll know when I need to let goEighty, eh, so how does it feel?” It’s a question to which I have had to reply too often since “that” birthday. I have now lived two years longer than my father, eight years longer than my mother, a full decade longer than the good book anticipated and if the demographic pundits are to be believed, as a resident of the soft south I hav
  
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