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• Serious health concerns missed in older adults

  08-02-2019 19:14
  Researchers examined the prevalence and impact of six common symptoms (pain, fatigue, depression, anxiety, breathing difficulty, sleep problems) and found that nearly half of adults ages 65 and older have two or more of these symptoms and one-fourth have three or more. But often clinicians miss these symptoms, and the more serious health issues they portend because patients only talk about one of these symptoms during a visit.
  
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• Care home operator Burlington Care strengthens care team

  08-02-2019 17:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  Burlington Care has announced the appointment of Leah Moon as Commissioning Officer, covering North and East Yorkshire. Leah has extensive experience in adult social care having worked as a Generic Therapy Assistant within the NHS based at Scarborough General Hospital; working with the Physiotherapists and Occupational Therapists to improve the lives of elderly people and […]
  
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• We foster carers are unsupported, unappreciated and undervalued

  08-02-2019 11:28
  My colleagues come from all walks of life and bring skill and commitment to caring for the most vulnerable children‘Fostering can be heart-wrenching. At times I’ve sat down and cried’People say the stupidest things to foster carers. I’ve lost count of the number of times people have told me they couldn’t do my job because they would “love the children too much to give them up”, as if I was a cold, loveless monster of a man who liked nothing more than hav
  
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• Didsbury care village achieves national accreditation for end of life care quality

  08-02-2019 10:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  Didsbury care village, Belong Morris Feinmann, has received the national ‘Six Steps’ end of life accreditation, following its completion of the rigorous ‘Six Steps to Success’ programme. The programme, which is underpinned by the National End of Life Care Strategy, supports care homes to achieve measures set out by the Department of Health Quality Markers […]
  
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• Lincolnshire specialist care service for learning disabilities found ‘Good’ in all areas by CQC

  08-02-2019 09:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  A Lincoln care home which provides respite accommodation for people with learning disabilities has received a glowing Care Quality Commission (CQC) report. Swallow Lodge on Fen Lane in North Hykeham, which is managed by national health and social care charity Making Space, received ‘good’ ratings in every area measured by the CQC, the independent regulator […]
  
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• Isle of Wight Couple Celebrate 50 Years of Marriage

  08-02-2019 08:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Isle of Wight couple John and Dilys are celebrating 50 years of marriage. A relationship that blossomed thanks to a chance meeting at a friend’s party in February 1968. Within five months of meeting the happy pair announced their engagement in June 1968 and begun to plan their wedding ceremony, which took place on 18th […]
  
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