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• Emerging evidence of an impending Parkinson's disease pandemic identified

  29-01-2019 18:48
  For most of human history Parkinson's disease (PD) has been a rare disorder. However, demography and the by-products of industrialization a now contributing to an impending a Parkinson's pandemic, according to experts.
  
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• Clare in the community: staying alive

  29-01-2019 16:00
  Megan cries over a dead plant Continue reading...
  
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• Care workers forced to cut short home visits or be left out of pocket | Melissa Viney

  29-01-2019 15:00
  New figures show more than half of councils don’t insist that agencies pay staff for their travel between appointmentsUntil he was 90, Michael Robinson’s father, James, was an active man, taking the grandchildren to school and going out every day, but gradually Michael noticed his father slowing down and his mother, Pearl, repeating herself. His father had a fall in the house and stopped going out. Three years ago both parents were diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, and it was
  
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• Hair salon opens at Bernadette House

  29-01-2019 10:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  A resident at a care home in Lincoln had her wish come true when she was surprised by a new hair salon at the home. Yvonne Radford, who is a long-term resident at Bernadette House, in South Park, has always enjoyed visits to the hairdressers and a dream of hers was that the home would […]
  
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• Care provider speaks out as social care reaches ‘breaking point’

  29-01-2019 09:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  Worried providers have today spoken out over the worsening crisis in social care which has left care homes at ‘breaking point’ and the threat of many, many more people going without care. As a national campaign urged the Government to set out how it plans to protect older and vulnerable adults, the Independent Care Group […]
  
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• Home care provider celebrates two glowing CQC reports

  29-01-2019 09:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  A social care provider is celebrating after two of its services – a rehabilitation team and a care home – both received 100% ‘Good’ reports from UK’s health watchdog. The Optalis support and rehabilitation team, who provide short-term care and support to people in their own homes across the Windsor and Maidenhead area, was rated […]
  
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• Somerset Care Group announces two Outstanding Manager Awards

  29-01-2019 08:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Somerset Care Group has announced not just one, but two winners of the ‘Harry Patch Outstanding Manager Award’. Ross Isbell and Andrea Bacon were presented with the award at the Quarterly Managers’ meeting in December. The Harry Patch Award was first presented 10 years ago, in 2009 following the death of the last surviving […]
  
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• Young people suffer big rise in online bullying, watchdog warns

  29-01-2019 01:21
  Ofcom report comes amid fears over protection of children on social media
  The bullying of young people online and in text messages has grown significantly worse in recent years, according to the UK’s media watchdog.An Ofcom report published on Tuesday found that the proportion of 12- to 15-year-olds who said they had been bullied over text messages and apps increased from only 2% in 2016 to 9% last year, while the proportion of those who reported having been bullied on social media nearly
  
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• Women twice as likely to suffer from severe depression after a stroke

  29-01-2019 01:14
  New research has found that women are twice as likely to suffer from severe depression following a stroke than men.
  
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• More than half of young people in jail are of BME background

  29-01-2019 01:01
  David Lammy says record proportion in England and Wales is similar to that in USMore than half of the inmates held in prisons for young people in England and Wales are from a black and minority ethnic (BME) background, the highest proportion on record, the prisons watchdog has said, prompting warnings that youth jails have hit “American” levels of disproportionality.About 51% of boys in young offender institutions (YOIs) – prisons for boys aged 15 to 17 and young adult men aged
  
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