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• Care home visits guidance in England is unlawful, charity claims

  09-09-2020 18:13
  
  Campaigners threaten legal action over suffering caused by lack of visits to most vulnerableCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageCampaigners working to persuade the government to reinstate care home visits have challenged the legality of recent guidance that they say has spread chaos and caused suffering to some of the country’s most vulnerable people.Julia Jones and Nicci Gerrard, the co-founders of John’s Campaign, argue that a fundamental violation of
  
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• Robot carers are an insult to our most vulnerable | Letters

  09-09-2020 17:54
  
  Readers respond to news that robots are to be deployed in some UK care homes to reduce loneliness
  Your report on the use of robots in care homes follows a familiar and dispiriting pattern (Robots to be used in UK care homes to help reduce loneliness, 7 September). Interventions of all kinds, from art groups to yoga, have been shown to improve residents’ mood and mental state, at least temporarily. Most of these interventions clearly have their own intrinsic value, but what most studies fai
  
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• Mindfulness with paced breathing and lowering blood pressure

  09-09-2020 16:02
  Now more than ever, Americans and people all over the world are under increased stress, which may adversely affect their health and well-being. Researchers explore the possibility that mindfulness with paced breathing reduces blood pressure. One of the most plausible mechanisms is that paced breathing stimulates the vagus nerve and parasympathetic nervous system, which reduce stress chemicals in the brain and increase vascular relaxation that may lead to lowering of blood pressure.
  
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• DC Care announces sale of Manchester care home

  09-09-2020 09:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  On behalf of Mr and Mrs Lowe, DC Care is delighted to announce completion of the recent sale of their shares in Crystal House Platinum Limited, owners of Bank House care home, located in Bury, near Manchester.
   
  This sizable property is stone-built, enjoying an elevated position and resides within generous grounds. Two sympathetically designed extensions have been added, creating a spacious environment. In addition to the generous care space, there is an annexe which houses administration,
  
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• Hands. Face. Space. Another campaign to fight off coronavirus

  09-09-2020 09:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  A new science based public information campaign will be launched ahead of winter to highlight how everyone can help to stop the spread of the virus by remembering to wash their hands, cover their face and make space.
   
  ‘Hands. Face. Space’ will run across TV, radio, print, out of home, social and digital display advertising, as well as on community media channels and will be supported by a variety of public and private sector partners throughout the coming weeks.
   
  As part
  
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• Resident author at Hoar Cross Nursing and Care Home

  09-09-2020 09:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ornithologist Brian George embracing the natural wonders of Hoar Cross Nursing and Care Home.
  Resident and celebrated author of ‘A Journal of a year in the life of a Blue Badge Birder’, by Brian C George, has got everyone at Hoar Cross Nursing and Care Home twitching.
  A loss in mobility inspired Brian to write his first book in 2012. Determined to share his knowledge and knowhow to help other Blue Badge holders get out and about and embrace the wonderful world of birds, now his books
  
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• Construction begins for new Hallmark 76 bed Bath care home

  09-09-2020 07:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  Work has begun on the construction of a second, ground-breaking 76 bed Hallmark care home in Bath which will provide residential and dementia care.
   
  Midford Manor, which follows in the footsteps of their luxury Eastbourne development, will be built by Hallmark’s sister company, Savista Developments at a total project cost of £14 million across a 1.6-acre site at Frome Road.
   
  Hallmark’s Managing Director Ram Goyal, Chair Avnish Goyal and the site’s construction
  
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