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• 'They could die of loneliness': how Covid policies impact care homes

  14-09-2020 20:11
  
  UK care homes restrict visits to protect elderly residents from coronavirus but families find certain measures excessiveCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAs the UK faces a potential second wave of the coronavirus, care homes across the country have started to restrict visits to protect their elderly residents.But the limits are causing heartache for relatives, some of whom have spoken of their grief at not being able to visit family members, even in the final days
  
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• The Guardian view on care home visits: make them happen | Editorial

  14-09-2020 19:31
  
  The government must find a way to ensure that the elderly and vulnerable do not endure an autumn and winter of total isolation from their loved onesThe ominous portents arrive daily. A survey of British doctors has found that almost nine in 10 expect a second peak of coronavirus within the next six months. Data suggests the rate of viral transmission nationally is again lurching out of control; new lockdown restrictions have been imposed in the West Midlands and the Welsh health minister has war
  
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• UK care home residents facing fresh restrictions as Covid infections rise

  14-09-2020 18:04
  
  Families face more distress as many homes close doors to visitors Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThousands of families of care home residents are facing fresh distress as operators enforce tighter visitor restrictions and lock down homes as Covid-19 infections rise.Care UK, one of the largest national operators, has already closed 48 of its 124 care homes to visitors, mostly because of positive tests or because it is awaiting test results. HC One, the largest U
  
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• Live-in care creates more than 1,500 new care jobs

  14-09-2020 09:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  London, live-in care company Elder, which already works with over 3,000 live-in carers nationwide, is creating 1,500 new jobs for home carers to help deal with a huge increase in demand, as families search out an alternative to residential care. 
  As the COVID-19 pandemic has taken a tragic toll on the UK’s care homes, the company – which matches people with professional, full-time carers who move into the home – has seen a huge uplift in enquiries about its service in rece
  
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• My working week: 'I cry after hearing one domestic abuse survivor's story. She is lucky to be alive'

  14-09-2020 08:00
  
  My job is to make women who suffer domestic violence safer. I wonder if they know how I wish I could do moreI am an independent domestic violence advocate. I phone one of my clients first thing; I’ve been worried about her over the weekend. Although I’m an atheist, as the phone rings I find myself praying that her partner hasn’t hurt her. She answers, says “I’m not interested in PPI” and hangs up. That’s a code letting me know her abuser is with her and
  
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• Braintree care home residents rediscover a love for gardening and vegetables

  14-09-2020 07:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Aspen Grange care home in Braintree has used the UK’s lockdown to develop a love of gardening and vegetable growing among its residents.
  The care home, which is based on Coldnailhurst Avenue, regularly looks for interesting and creative ways to keep service users entertained, and throughout the period of restricted visits has managed to introduce residents to a range of new hobbies.
  One of the new favourite activities amongst residents at Aspen Grange is vegetable growing.
  Over recent week
  
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