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• Painting a bigger biosociological picture of chronic pain

  20-08-2019 20:16
  An integrated approach that unifies psychosocial factors with neurobiology sheds light on chronic pain traits and their underlying brain networks, according to a new study.
  
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• Celebrities share private memories of loved ones affected by dementia

  20-08-2019 16:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Six high-profile celebrities including Vicky McClure, Rhod Gilbert and Sir Tony Robinson are supporting Alzheimer’s Society’s Memory Walks in September and October to raise vital funds for dementia research and support. They are urging the public to unite against dementia by signing up and walking in celebration of a family member, friend, or colleague affected […]
  
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• Clare in the community: who's spoiling the view?

  20-08-2019 16:00
  Clare doesn’t want to share Continue reading...
  
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• Care Home Quality Manager raises funds for Macmillan Cancer

  20-08-2019 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  A CROSS border 100-mile bike ride was completed by a care home quality manager to raise funds for Macmillan Cancer Support. 60-year-old Lynn Walter cycled from Carlisle, Cumbria, across the border to Scotland and finished at Cramond Beach, Edinburgh. She raised £550 for the Macmillan Cancer Support, the chosen charity of her employer, the Hill […]
  
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• As a disabled person, could escaping to the country give me more freedom? | James Coke

  20-08-2019 14:00
  We’d watched the TV shows and knew the rural idyll could be anything but. Yet my MS was making me a prisoner in my own homeWhen Julie, my wife, was made redundant from her executive assistant job a couple of years ago, we decided to up sticks and leave London for our own rural idyll in Devon. We knew it would require a lot of planning and expenditure – I’m disabled and rely on a wheelchair to get around because of multiple sclerosis – and we were aware we’d be leavi
  
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• ‘I was an isolated young carer. Being involved in this stopped me killing myself’

  20-08-2019 13:00
  A play at the Edinburgh festival, based on real-life experience, is identifying desperate children hidden in caring roles
  Trapped between the demands of school and caring for her stepfather and mother with mental health issues, Salford teenager Kerry was several times pushed to the point of suicide.From the age of 11, Kerry’s weekdays were dominated by a flurry of early morning cooking, cleaning and organisation of medication, before leaving for school – only to return to more of the
  
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• ‘I was an isolated young carer. Being involved in a play stopped me killing myself’

  20-08-2019 13:00
  A play at the Edinburgh festival, based on real-life experience, is identifying desperate children hidden in caring roles
  Trapped between the demands of school and caring for her stepfather and mother with mental health issues, Salford teenager Kerry was several times pushed to the point of suicide.From the age of 11, Kerry’s weekdays were dominated by a flurry of early morning cooking, cleaning and organisation of medication, before leaving for school – only to return to more of the
  
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• Burnham-on-Sea care home unveils fantastic new beach-themed garden

  20-08-2019 10:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  The team at Priory Court Care & Nursing Home have been making the most of the summer sunshine and preparing their garden for the annual Country Court Care in Bloom gardening competition. For their garden project, the team at Priory Court have joined forces with local street artist Damian Nicholson, to transform a dull wall […]
  
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• High Wycombe primary school pupils raise hundreds for military care home’s minibus appeal

  20-08-2019 08:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Pupils at a primary school have taken part in a sponsored run and raised nearly £700 for The Royal Star & Garter Homes. Year Three and Four children from High Wycombe CofE School ran laps around The Rye on June 27, with parents cheering and supporting them. Fifty pupils, aged between seven and nine, helped […]
  
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