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• Resolving inflammation: Could it prevent memory loss in Down syndrome and Alzheimer's?

  13-03-2020 23:08
  Resolvins are lipids that 'resolve' the inflammation that normally follows injury or disease, returning the body back to normal. Therapeutic administration of one such resolvin can halt memory loss in a common preclinical model of Down syndrome, a finding that could also be relevant to memory loss in Alzheimer's disease, report researchers. This resolvin could enhance the body's ability to heal and resolve inflammation.
  
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• Experts question Bupa restrictions on family visits to care homes

  13-03-2020 19:44
  
  Legal and ethical concerns about moves to prevent coronavirus infection Pressure is growing on care homes to close their doors to all family and friends despite updated government guidance, after Bupa announced on Friday that it was advising against visits except in exceptional circumstances.A spokesperson for Bupa, which runs 120 care homes for 6,800 residents, said: “We are continuing to keep our residents, relatives and staff safe and well, so are taking additional measures by minimisin
  
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• Experts question Bupa care home ban on most family visits

  13-03-2020 19:44
  
  Legal and ethical concerns about moves to prevent coronavirus infection Pressure is growing on care homes to close their doors to all family and friends despite updated government guidance, after Bupa announced on Friday that it was banning all visits except in exceptional circumstances.A spokesperson for Bupa, which runs 120 care homes for 6,800 residents, said: “We are continuing to keep our residents, relatives and staff safe and well, so are taking additional measures by minimising vis
  
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• Rough sleepers and drug users not getting coronavirus advice

  13-03-2020 18:59
  
  Charities say vulnerable people are at risk as night shelters turn away rough sleepers who may be infectiousMore than a quarter of a million vulnerable people including rough sleepers and drug users are missing out on vital advice on how to handle the coronavirus threat, placing lives at risk, experts have warned.Charities said people living in unregulated supported housing, homeless hostels and temporary accommodation were not receiving key information from public health authorities. Continue r
  
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• Wider review of care system is essential | Letters

  13-03-2020 17:44
  
  Prof Mike Stein and Amanda Knowles say it is vital to examine the systemic failures that lead to children and teenagers ending up in careAs your editorial headline suggests, “A ban on councils placing under-16s in unregulated settings is not enough” (Journal, 13 March), but neither is a review that focuses only on the care system, as this would fail to address the reasons why increasing numbers of young people are entering care in the first place.There is research evidence that shows
  
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• Care homes and coronavirus: 'We think of residents’ emotional wellbeing'

  13-03-2020 15:58
  
  How one nursing home in the Surrey Hills is reassuring its elderly residents about the outbreak Rosamund Davies, 91, would not be happy if the government banned her family from visiting her at the Birtley House nursing home, set in 48 acres of beautiful Surrey Hills countryside.“I would be very cross if visits from my children were restricted,” she said. “And I would be furious if I was told I had to stay in my room, self-isolating. Continue reading...
  
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• Care homes ban family visits to stem spread of coronavirus

  13-03-2020 11:45
  
  Homes across UK taking action despite government not yet advising them to close doorsCare homes across the country are banning visits from friends and family and keeping residents indoors in an effort to stem the spread of coronavirus.The government has not told care providers to shut their doors to all non-essential visits but the former health secretary Jeremy Hunt, chair of the Commons health and social care committee, told BBC Newsnight on Thursday he was “personally surprised that we&
  
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• Bexhill on Sea care home launches residential dementia facilities

  13-03-2020 08:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  Southlands Place Nursing Home in Bexhill on Sea launched its Residential Dementia facilities by hosting a free local community event on-site. Over 40 guests learnt about Southlands exciting plans in the months to come that respond to a growing demand for Dementia care in the local area and were able to see how the home […]
  
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• Johnson’s egocentric budget gives him everything and local councils nothing | Simon Jenkins

  13-03-2020 07:30
  
  Stifling local democracy and centralising control is the style of Orbán’s Hungary or Erdoğan’s TurkeyPopulism has arrived, blue in tooth and claw. Rishi Sunak’s budget, clearly dictated from 10 Downing Street, proposes a staggering £600bn of extra public spending over the current parliament, showing an enthusiasm for public spending not seen seen since postwar reconstruction in the 1950s. Apart from cash set aside for coronavirus, it is going not into people&r
  
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