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• Study examines the benefits of virtual stroke rehabilitation programs

  02-09-2020 17:59
  While virtual medical and rehabilitation appointments seemed novel when COVID-19 first appeared, they now seem to be part of the new norm and might be paving the way to the future. A recent review paper has determined that virtual appointments, in the form of telerehabilitation, also work for people recovering from a stroke.
  
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• Nottingham care home staff make a run for it!

  02-09-2020 08:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  The team at Chetwynd House in Chilwell, Nottingham are running or walking the length of the United Kingdom to raise money for the Alzheimer’s Society. The team started the sponsored walk in August on a treadmill with the aim of completing the 874 miles by the end of September. Courtney Tideswell who loaned the treadmill […]
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• How a bag of sweets led to 59 years together

  02-09-2020 07:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  When a handsome young soldier offered Jean Alexander a sweet at the pictures 61 years ago, little did she know that it would lead to 59 years of wedded bliss.   But that’s exactly what happened to Jean and Alan from Newark.   Alan Cann, then aged 19 from Manchester, had been stationed at Newark […]
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• Australia's aged care watchdog says it does not have resources to fully check in-home services

  02-09-2020 01:22
  
  Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission tells inquiry it has not met timelines or budget allocationsUnderperforming residential aged care facilities have become such a burden on the sector’s regulator that they are limiting its ability to monitor home care services to older Australians.The Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission has provided information to the aged care royal commission in which it acknowledges it has fallen short of timelines and budget allocations to ensure standards of
  
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• Health organisations unite to raise concerns over Government plans to reorganise public health system

  02-09-2020 01:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Today over 70 health organisations and alliances have sent a joint statement to the Prime Minister, the Secretary of State for Health, and the interim leadership of Public Health England, raising serious concerns about the reorganisation of public health now underway. This follows recent announcements that PHE will cease to exist by April next year […]
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