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• Phase 3 clinical trial to treat mild Alzheimer's disease using deep brain stimulation

  21-10-2020 14:51
  
  Medical researchers are enrolling individuals in an international phase 3 clinical trial to examine the safety and effectiveness of deep brain stimulation to treat Alzheimer's. The study uses electrical impulses to stimulate the region of the brain known as the fornix, which is associated with memory and learning.
  
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• New Tredegar care home resident celebrates her 105th birthday!

  21-10-2020 09:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  A resident at White Rose care home in New Tredegar has celebrated her 105th birthday with her son, friends and staff due to lockdown restrictions.
  Nellie Dando enjoyed a socially distanced party with fellow residents and staff, which included a cake and a card from the Queen.
  Nellie is a New Tredegar native, who moved to London as a teenager and returned home when she was older to care for her grandmother. She has two sons, Ivor who lives in Australia and Kenneth who moved into White Rose in Mar
  
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• 'A game changer'. The UK's first LGBTQ+ extra-care housing scheme gets go ahead

  21-10-2020 08:00
  
  Accommodation in Manchester will support older LGBTQ+ people, whose loneliness has been exacerbated by the pandemicBill Moss, a retired prison officer, felt isolated before Covid. As the only gay person in his block of sheltered flats in Salford, coronavirus has heightened his sense of loneliness. Single, without any close family and cut off from an active social life in Manchester’s gay village, he spends most of the day with only the TV for company.Moss, 57, has been through a pandemic b
  
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• Dedicated support worker dedicates paintings to care home residents

  21-10-2020 07:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  A support worker who has dedicated 20 years of care to individuals at Rosewarne residential care home in Camborne, Cornwall, has spent a year painting a series of canvas pictures to be installed in the sensory gardens of the home.
   
  Debbie Dyer, 58, plays a vital role in taking care of disabled adults with complex care needs, including giving them medication, assisting them to eat and their daily activities at the home on Tehidy Road.
   
  After dedicating a tropical underwater mural to t
  
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