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• Yolanda Corden obituary

  03-01-2019 18:44
  Over the years my friend Yolanda Corden, who has died aged 76, made an immense contribution to the welfare of children as a senior social worker in London and, latterly, Cambridgeshire, Gloucestershire and Coventry.She had a particularly strong impact in Hackney, where in the late 1990s she consolidated the council’s new, centrally based independent child protection unit, and at Gloucestershire county council, where she was interim head of children’s services (2003-04), transforming
  
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• Technology and doctors combine to detect patients who don't take their pills

  03-01-2019 17:08
  Almost everyone does it at some point -- skip a dose of a medication, decide to not schedule a recommended follow-up appointment or ignore doctor's orders to eat or exercise differently. Such nonadherence can seem harmless on an individual level, but costs the U.S. health care system billions of dollars a year. Now, researchers have shown how to best identify nonadherent patients, combining technology with the perceptions of health care providers.
  
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• The first lesson from my life as a carer? There is such a thing as society | Anna Cosslett

  03-01-2019 12:49
  Looking after my son made me stronger. But when the crisis came, we still needed professional helpIt’s leaflets at the moment. If my son sees any, in a cafe for instance, he wants them all. Later he will want to go through them and then destroy each one, tearing them into tiny pieces. We’ve got him down to a maximum of three. This is progress. When he lived at home, it was books – each one to be looked through swiftly, then reshelved on the other side of the room. If we went ou
  
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• Carles maintains ‘volunteering is a privilege’ ahead of International Volunteer Day

  03-01-2019 10:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Carles Forés from Valencia, Spain, recently spent seven weeks volunteering at Fremantle Court care home in Stoke Mandeville. His message for International Volunteer Day (5th December) is that contributing to society in this way is not only a positive experience, but a great learning opportunity. International Volunteer Day (IVD) was set up by the United […]
  
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• Teenage volunteers & care home residents create career event day

  03-01-2019 09:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Boulters Lock Care Home in Maidenhead welcomed a group of eight teenage volunteers for a new project to interact and learn about careers. A partnership between Boulters Lock and social integration charity The Challenge, organised the teens to visit, meet and talk to the elderly residents, as part of their time with the NCS (National […]
  
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• Warwick-based care home celebrates improved Care Quality Commission rating

  03-01-2019 08:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Runwood Homes’ Warwick-based care home, Park View, is delighted to be awarded ‘Good’ in all areas following a recent inspection by the Care Quality Commission. The new improved rating, verifying the service is performing well and meeting expectations, is being celebrated following a CQC report in December 2017 which stated the Warwick care home required […]
  
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