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• Your neighborhood may raise your risk of chronic kidney disease

  23-09-2020 22:46
  
  A neighborhood's overall socioeconomic status, including income and education-level, may influence its residents' risk of chronic kidney disease, according to a new study.
  
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• Fructose made in the brain could be a mechanism driving Alzheimer's disease, researchers propose

  23-09-2020 18:48
  
  New research proposes that Alzheimer's disease may be driven by the overactivation of fructose made in the brain. The study outlined the hypothesis that Alzheimer's is a modern disease driven by changes in dietary lifestyle that has resulted in excessive fructose metabolism in the brain.
  
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• As UK care homes face a Covid second wave, families are seeking alternatives

  23-09-2020 09:00
  
  Growing numbers of older people are choosing live-in care or to move in with homeowners who have spare rooms
  Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAnxiety is running high about the risk of loved ones contracting Covid in a care home over the coming months. And not without reason. Between early March and early August, care homes in England and Wales recorded some 26,500 excess deaths.With this in mind, many families are now looking for an alternative to residential car
  
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• Care home residents strut their stuff on the dancefloor

  23-09-2020 08:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  Brinnington Hall care home residents have been strutting their stuff on the dancefloor to keep fit and have fun during the coronavirus pandemic.
   
  The care team created the ‘Strictly Come Brinnington’ competition to bring both staff and residents together through their love of music and dancing. The residents and team worked together to create fun routines to showcase to their ‘studio audience’ in the homes social area. The competition was such a succe
  
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• Aberdeen care facility keeps residents hydrated

  23-09-2020 07:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  Residents at an award-winning Aberdeen care facility for the elderly have been keeping hydrated this summer, thanks to an innovative project.
  Staff and residents at Aberdeen’s Rubislaw Park Care home have teamed up to create an innovative “Hydration Station” which has transformed a small area of the home into a self-service area for drinks and snacks.
  Although other hydration points were already in use throughout the facility, the recent addition of a sensory-orientated station
  
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• Relatives invited to move into care homes in England amid Covid lockdowns

  23-09-2020 07:00
  
  Two-week stays among efforts by providers to keep residents in contact with familiesCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA care home group is inviting family members to move in with their loved ones as part of efforts across social care to try to keep the most vulnerable people in touch with relatives as rising Covid-19 cases trigger fresh lockdowns.Brendoncare, which runs 10 care homes in the south of England, will allow a relative of newly-admitted residents to sta
  
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• Covid ban on care home visitors risks premature deaths, experts warn

  23-09-2020 07:00
  
  Charities call for elderly residents’ loved ones to be given limited visiting rights to maintain ‘will to live’Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageSweeping bans on visiting at thousands of care homes risk residents dying prematurely this winter as they give up hope in the absence of loved ones, experts in elderly care have warned.More than 2,700 care homes in England are either already shut or will be told to do so imminently by local public health
  
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