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• NACC team to run Marathon Relay for St Luke’s Hospice

  31-03-2019 11:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  A team of energetic members and supporters of the National Association of Care Catering (NACC) is running the NACC Marathon Relay on Wednesday 3 April 2019 to raise money for the association’s chosen charity, St Luke’s Hospice Harrow & Brent. The event, which takes place at Harrow School Sports Centre, also supports Neel Radia, the […]
  
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• Drug trips, not broken hips: let later life be the age of irresponsibility | Sonia Sodha

  31-03-2019 08:00
  Surely surrendering to hedonism rather than misery would be better in a care homeContemplating getting old and thinking about what it would be like living out your last years institutionalised in a care home is enough to make anyone feel depressed. Sure, there are some excellent care homes out there, but there are also plenty that are steeped in loneliness and misery. And the prospect of losing your physical – or, even worse, your mental – faculties is deeply scary.That gut reaction
  
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