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• Weightlifting is good for your heart and it doesn't take much

  13-11-2018 17:54
  Lifting weights for less than an hour a week may reduce your risk for a heart attack or stroke by 40 to 70 percent, according to a new study. Spending more than an hour in the weight room did not yield any additional benefit, the researchers found. The results show benefits of strength training are independent of running, walking or other aerobic activity.
  
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• Clare in the Community: New age rage

  13-11-2018 16:00
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• Veterans pay respects at Remembrance Day services

  13-11-2018 10:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ex-servicemen and women at The Royal Star & Garter Homes have paid their respects on Remembrance Day at services in Surbiton, Solihull and London.
   
  Residents observed the two-minute silence at the Homes in Solihull and Surbiton on 11 November. Representatives from the Homes were also present at local services, while Second World War veterans from Surbiton attended the Cenotaph Service and Parade at Whitehall.
   
  This year’s Remembrance Day also coincided with the Armistice ce
  
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• Career changers in social care: ‘They have life experience and empathy’

  13-11-2018 09:55
  Unfulfilled or plateauing in your current job? The social care sector offers a new challenge for those wanting to help othersPeople who change careers are often attracted to the social care sector because of its potential to transform other people’s lives. Success, whether supporting an older person to live more independently or helping a family in crisis, tends to be palpable.Such recruits account for up to 40% of entrants to social work postgraduate training programmes and come from a va
  
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• Dunstable dancers get care home residents in the mood for dancing!

  13-11-2018 09:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  DUNSTABLE dancers helped a local care home get in the Strictly Come Dancing spirit this week when they performed for residents.
  On Pointe Dance Academy visited Caddington Grove Care Home, on London Road, in the first of a series of performances showcasing their ballroom and theatrical-themed dances.
  As contestants on the live TV show prepare to dance at the world famous Blackpool Tower Ballroom, the care home events helped residents reminisce about their own dancing days.
  Resident and avid Stric
  
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• New Century Care homes mark the Armistice Centenary with poppy displays made by residents

  13-11-2018 08:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  With the nation marking 100 years since the first world war ended, residents at The Oaks, Aldwick House and Buxton Lodge care homes paid their respects in solidarity of the fallen.
   
  Aldwick House care home in Bognor Regis saw residents pay tribute by creating moving poppy displays, including the planting of some poppies in the garden as a colourful reminder.
   
  The care home’s Activity Coordinator, Donna, asked residents how they would like to mark the Centenary of Armistice with
  
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• Nuffield Trust publishes blog on cost of a ‘no deal’ Brexit for the NHS

  13-11-2018 01:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  As the possibility of a no deal Brexit starts to move worryingly close to the time frame in which health care leaders have to make decisions, attention is turning to the small print of exactly what this dramatic scenario would mean.
  Some high-profile reports, and much debate ahead of the recent Budget, have focused on what it would mean for the tax revenue that funds the service. Others have tried to calculate the price of stockpiling – sometimes forgetting that the ultimate amount of medi
  
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