Care news

• Deep learning to analyze neurological problems

  21-11-2019 20:13
  Getting to the doctor's office for a check-up can be challenging for someone with a neurological disorder that impairs their movement, such as a stroke. But what if the patient could just take a video clip of their movements with a smart phone and forward the results to their doctor?
  
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• 'No child should be moved away': why councils are opening new children's homes

  21-11-2019 09:25
  
  Vulnerable children are sometimes placed hundreds of miles away. Can new ‘family style’ homes meet their complex needs?
  Guardian Jobs: see the latest vacancies in social careAfter decades of decline, the council-run children’s home is being reinvented and growing numbers of local authorities are returning to provision of their own residential care for “looked-after” youngsters.From Nottinghamshire to Bristol, small “family-style” council homes are being
  
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• Older people dying for want of social care at rate of three an hour

  21-11-2019 01:01
  
  Age UK estimates that between last general and next, 74,000 of cohort in England have died or will die waiting for careAt least 74,000 older people in England have died, or will die, waiting for care between the 2017 and 2019 general elections. A total of 81 older people are dying every day, equating to about three an hour, research by Age UK has found.In the 18 months between the last election and the forthcoming one, 1,725,000 unanswered calls for help for care and support will have been made
  
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