Care news

• Study associates coronavirus disease (COVID-19) with large vessel occlusion strokes

  30-07-2020 20:12
  COVID-19 is associated with large vessel occlusion (LVO) stroke but not small vessel occlusion stroke. After stratification for race and ethnicity, the risk of LVO stroke among patients with COVID-19 was 2.4 times as high among patients without COVID-19. Physicians should lower their suspicion threshold for LVO stroke in COVID-19 patients presenting with acute neurologic symptoms.
  
  Read more

• There is no magic fix for our social care crisis | Letters

  30-07-2020 18:49
  
  Readers react to government proposals for the NHS to take over the management of social careThe fundamental problems of social care are not structural, but derive from deficiencies in funding and provision. These will not be solved by dumping social care on the NHS (Revealed: NHS could take over social care, swelling budget to £150bn, 27 July).Its problems would be resolved in part by providing local authorities with enough money to fund a decent level of service. The problem of provision
  
  Read more

• 'We feel a little forgotten': Welsh mother, 93, on the broken care system

  30-07-2020 15:50
  
  Barbara MacArthur talks about struggle of caring for disabled son after Guardian letter goes viralFor more than half a century, Barbara MacArthur, one of the first female police officers in south Wales, has worked countless long, unpaid hours as a carer.In the 60s, she began looking after her ailing parents in her small terraced house in Cardiff. Now, aged 93 and frail herself, she continues to care for her 66-year-old disabled son, Howard. The pair live on the cramped ground floor of the house
  
  Read more

• 'We feel a little forgotten': Welsh mother, 93, on broken care system

  30-07-2020 15:50
  
  Barbara MacArthur talks about struggle of caring for disabled son after Guardian letter goes viralFor more than half a century, Barbara MacArthur, one of the first female police officers in south Wales, has worked countless, long, unpaid hours as a carer.In the 1960s she began looking after her ailing parents in her small terraced house in Cardiff and now, aged 93 and frail herself, she continues to care for her 66-year-old disabled son, Howard. The pair live on the cramped ground floor of the h
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• 'We feel a little forgotten': UK care system fails 93-year-old mother

  30-07-2020 15:50
  
  Barbara MacArthur talks about the struggle of caring for her son after Guardian letter goes viralFor more than half a century, 93-year-old Barbara MacArthur, one of the first women police officers in south Wales, has worked countless, long, unpaid hours as a carer.In the 1960s she began looking after her ailing parents in her small terraced house in Cardiff and now, despite her own age and frailty, she continues to care for her 66-year-old disabled son, Howard. The pair live in a cramped ground
  
  Read more

• Inflammation induced blood-brain barrier dysfunction studied in organoids

  30-07-2020 15:26
  For this study, the 3D brain organoid was used to model the effects of oxygen deprivation and inflammation on blood brain barrier function to better understand what is happening in a human brain during an ischemic stroke.
  
  Read more

• Jan Heath obituary

  30-07-2020 12:12
  
  My sister Jan Heath, who has died of pancreatic cancer aged 76, was a medical social worker by training. Both her career and the causes she supported enabled her to pursue her passion for fairness and social justice.Born and brought up in Cobham, Surrey, the daughter of Oliver Thompson, a Shell Oil executive, and his wife, Phyllida (nee Bryant), a housewife and active community organiser, Jan was educated at Sherborne girls school in Dorset and Trinity College Dublin, where she read sociology. S
  
  Read more

• Statement from the UK Chief Medical Officers on extension of self-isolation period-Coronavirus

  30-07-2020 11:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  Statement from the UK Chief Medical Officers on extension of self-isolation period “In symptomatic people COVID-19 is most infectious just before, and for the first few days after symptoms begin. It is very important people with symptoms self-isolate and get a test, which will allow contact tracing. “Evidence, although still limited, has strengthened and shows […]
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Dorset care staff receive ‘Ab Fab’ gifts of thanks from home residents

  30-07-2020 10:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  Colleagues at The Old Vicarage care home in Leigh, Dorset have all received a special gesture of thanks from the residents who live at the home.  Every member of staff was presented with a treat box by residents, which had been put together by local lady Abby Dare of ‘Ab Fab Cakes’, containing delicious sweet […]
  
  Read more

• “I swapped my pots and pans for PPE and haven’t looked back!” says Community Carer

  30-07-2020 07:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  David Lewis, 49, decided to leave his previous role Managing a portfolio of 12 high-end restaurants in Bristol, to become a Community Carer with Brunelcare. He finally made the decision to swap the pots and pans for PPE at the start of the outbreak to try and make a difference and he’s not looked back […]
  
  Read more

• Seniors and staff caught in the middle of nursing homes' quest for profit

  30-07-2020 07:00
  
  The cycle of buying and selling care homes has led to shortcuts, closures, even fraud – and imperiled vulnerable residents’ healthIn the spring of 2018, Shelly Robinson came down with a case of the flu serious enough to send her to the emergency room. “The lady was like, ‘Your insurance is no good,’” she told me, “and I was like, ‘What do you mean my insurance is no good? They’ve been taking money out of my paycheck.’”But Robinson
  
  Read more

Follow @UK_Care on Twitter!