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• Having high cholesterol levels early in life leads to heart problems by middle age

  22-09-2020 23:26
  
  Having elevated cholesterol during the teens or early twenties increases a person's risk of having a heart attack, stroke or other cardiovascular event during middle age.
  
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• Parkinson's disease is not one, but two diseases

  22-09-2020 15:21
  
  Researchers around the world have been puzzled by the different symptoms and varied disease pathways of Parkinson's patients. A major study has now identified that there are actually two types of the disease.
  
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• Care providers should act now as UK care home operator faces legal action over Covid response

  22-09-2020 13:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jack Baumgardt, Associate in Ashfords’ Business Risk and Regulation Team
  Comments from Jack Baumgardt, Associate in Ashfords’ Business Risk and Regulation Team
  News of the first spate of legal actions by bereaved families against care homes has been long anticipated. The Covid-19 Pandemic has posed unprecedented challenges, from staffing to PPE, testing, reporting and perceived lack of Government support. The vulnerability of older persons and the anxiety caused by restrictions on vi
  
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• 'Nine at night and my laptop is still open': social work in a pandemic

  22-09-2020 09:33
  
  Covid-19 has blurred social workers’ personal and professional lives but multi-agency working has improved, say expertsGuardian Social Lives research finds only 29% of social workers feel workload is manageableThe coronavirus crisis has heaped pressure on social workers by blurring the boundaries between their professional and personal lives, a Guardian event heard.An online discussion, chaired by Guardian public services editor David Brindle, to launch the findings of Guardian Jobs’
  
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• I could lose my child if Covid closes her special needs school again | Beverley Cohen

  22-09-2020 09:00
  
  Parents like me need more help. I couldn’t cope with having my severely disabled daughter back at home full time Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageLike most parents, I love my child with all my heart. Unlike most parents, if there’s a Covid-19 case at her school and it has to close again, I could lose her.My daughter Liora Sangeeta is 14, she has complex needs: epilepsy that medication can’t control, a chronic kidney condition and autism. Liora c
  
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• Oxfordshire care home staff recognised for long service during ‘care appreciation week’

  22-09-2020 08:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  Members of staff at Cedar Court care home in Witney, Oxfordshire, have been thanked and recognised for their ongoing efforts to support residents during the COVID-19 pandemic, in a special week of appreciation.
  The home is part of the Healthcare Homes Group, which operates 45 residential care homes and 12 homecare branches in East Anglia and the south of England. The group launched its very own ‘Care Appreciation Week’ during August as a sign of its gratitude for all staff.
  Throughou
  
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• Wakefield Little Free Libraries donates Little Library to local care home

  22-09-2020 07:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  Residents at West Ridings Care Home in Wakefield can now borrow a bestseller from their own ‘Little Library’.
   
  The outdoor cupboard-style library was donated by the lovely people at Wakefield Little Free Libraries.
   
  When Clinical Services Manager Lauren Hermann spotted the community Little Free Library on nearby Ledger Lane, she contacted organiser Sue to enquire about buying one for the home.
   
  However, as luck would have it, Sue and her team were in the process of
  
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