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• Mary Parkes was 'stripped of her dignity' at London care home

  23-11-2018 20:54
  Niece says the widower almost died after contracting sepsis due to poor level of careRevealed: Companies running ‘inadequate’ UK care homes make £113m profitMary Parkes once enjoyed weekly visits to her local Catholic church, evenings playing bingo and days spent in the company of her close-knit circle of friends.But in the last years of her life, she became reliant on a wheelchair, often left alone in her room at a mouse-infested Bupa-run care home, according to her niece. Con
  
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• Revealed: Companies running 'inadequate' UK care homes make £113m profit

  23-11-2018 20:44
  Critics call on firms to use wider income to address ‘terrible indignity and neglect’
  Some of the country’s worst care homes are owned by companies that have made a total profit of £113m despite some of the vulnerable people they are supposed to look after being neglected, it can be revealed.An investigation by the Guardian has found that companies owning homes that care for elderly people with dementia, disabled people and those with learning difficulties, and have been
  
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• Companies running 'inadequate' UK care homes make £113m profit

  23-11-2018 20:44
  Critics call on firms to use wider income to address ‘terrible indignity and neglect’
  Some of the country’s worst care homes are owned by companies that have made a total profit of £113m despite some of the vulnerable people they are supposed to look after being neglected, it can be revealed.An investigation by the Guardian has found that companies owning homes that care for elderly people with dementia, disabled people and those with learning difficulties – and hav
  
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• Premiership rugby club scoops national Dementia Friendly Award

  23-11-2018 16:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  A leading rugby union club has won an Alzheimer’s Society Dementia Friendly Award in recognition of their efforts to tackle dementia.
  Worcester Warriors were celebrating success at a prestigious awards ceremony that took place in London on Thursday 22 November, hosted by Alzheimer’s Society Ambassador Angela Rippon.
  The Gallagher Premiership outfit was named Dementia Friendly Organisation of the Year – Small & Medium for their pioneering efforts to ensure people affected by
  
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• Specialist care home honours ‘amazing’ lives of residents

  23-11-2018 13:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Fernhill resident Dr Meg Skelly with her certificate of appreciation. With her are, from left, Kate Morris, the home’s Companionship Team Leader, Andy Keeble, Colten Care’s Director of IT and Support Services, and Claire Harrhy, a member of the community dental team who know Dr Skelly.
  A Dorset dementia care home has held an awards ceremony to recognise the ‘amazing lives and experiences’ of its residents before staff got to know them.
   
  Residents at Colten Care’
  
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• Jewish Care resident lays wreath at Remembrance Sunday service

  23-11-2018 10:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Residents of Jewish Care homes attended the wreath-laying ceremony at the Edgware cenotaph yesterday on Remembrance Sunday. Cecil Hearne 94, who is a resident at Jewish Care’s Lady Sarah Cohen House in Friern Barnet, laid the wreath on behalf of Jewish Care. The ceremony was also attended by the Deputy Lieutenant of Barnet, Sheila Gewolb LD and Reverand Sally Bailey of St Margarets Church, AJEX, Scouts and guides, army cadets, Hebrew Order of David and members of the local community.
   
  
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• Preschoolers join residents for Weekly Toddler Group at Wigmore care home

  23-11-2018 09:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Recognising the benefits of intergenerational activity, Gillingham mum, Emma Pankhurst, recently set up a mums and babies group at a nearby care home for older people.
   
  Residents of Rogers House Residential Care Home in Wigmore have been swapping their morning coffee for a morning playgroup for the past few weeks, as a new mums and babies group has been taking place in the dining room every Monday morning.
   
  Emma Pankhurst, the daughter of a member of staff at Rogers House decided to
  
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• Top tips for older people living with long-term health conditions

  23-11-2018 08:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  With 58 per cent of people over 60 living with long-term health conditions* Independent Age, the older people’s charity, has been listening to older people on the areas of their lives they find harder to manage.Independent Age’s new, free advice guide ‘Living well with long-term health conditions’ has been developed with older people who have long-term health conditions managed with medication or other treatments. It contains information and advice they themselves found h
  
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