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Avoiding inflammatory foods can lower heart disease, stroke risk

02-11-2020 20:22

Diets high in red and processed meat, refined grains and sugary beverages, which have been associated with increased inflammation in the body, can increase subsequent risk of heart disease and stroke compared to diets filled with anti-inflammatory foods. A separate study assessed the positive effects eating walnuts, an anti-inflammatory food, had on decreasing inflammation and heart disease risk.

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Heartbreak and uprisings in care homes | Letter

02-11-2020 17:48

Refusing loved ones entry into care homes can be distressing and harmful in itself, reveals one letter writer Rose Hall is far from alone (Letters, 27 October) in experiencing the heartbreak of a loved one losing themselves in the fog of degenerative cognitive disease. Too many of us are watching this act out at a distance because government guidance has refused us entry to care homes since March.My mum’s care home is exactly as the two words describe – it is the place where she rece

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Troon care home adapts ice breaker game to help fight dementia

02-11-2020 07:22 via feedproxy.google.com

A bespoke care home has adapted an ice breaker game to help residents with dementia.

Staff at Mansfield Care’s Belhaven House care home in Troon, South Ayrshire, have introduced ‘conversation balls’ to help encourage better social interaction and mental exercise with residents.

Random questions are attached to each ball which are designed to spark a memory or share a fond experience with other members of the activity group.

The activity can also be conducte

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South Staffordshire MP, Gavin Williamson, pays visit to Dudley’s newest luxury care home

02-11-2020 06:00 via feedproxy.google.com

South Staffordshire MP, Gavin Williamson, paid a special visit to Dudley’s newest luxury care home, Sedgley Court, to mark the homes upcoming launch this month.
Sedgley Court is Ideal Carehomes’ latest development and has benefitted from a £10 million investment, which once fully bult will provide all the finishing touches you would expect from a luxurious new home. The spacious en-suite bedrooms and latest care technology will allow the newly appointed Sedgley C

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Ex-health ministers call on Rishi Sunak to raise UK care workers' wages

02-11-2020 01:01

Cross-party MPs say more than 800,000 on Covid frontline get less than ‘national living wage’Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA cross-party group of five former health ministers have called on the UK chancellor, Rishi Sunak, to award embattled care workers an urgent wage increase to see them through the second wave of the pandemic and raise pay above the legal minimum.Andy Burnham, the mayor of Greater Manchester and a former health secretary, alongsi

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