Care news

• Mother review – a heartbreaking inquiry into the cost of dementia

  05-01-2021 14:00
  
  Kristof Bilsen stunning doc assesses the disease’s toll on patients and carers trapped in the international care-marketShakespeare’s line about “second childishness and mere oblivion” – the last of the seven ages of man bleakly proclaimed by Jacques in As You Like It – might come back to you watching this. But it doesn’t do justice to a very moving and profound documentary from director Kristof Bilsen and executive producer Kirsten Johnson (Dick Johnson
  
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• New Year’s Honour for Dorking charity care worker

  05-01-2021 11:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  A charity Healthcare Assistant who has supported veterans for almost 40 years has been awarded the British Empire Medal (BEM) in The Queen’s New Year’s Honours List 2021.Emrys Owen, Lead Healthcare Assistant at Royal Star & Garter, received his award for services to veterans during Covid-19.Emrys has been with the charity, which provides loving, compassionate care for veterans and their partners living with disability or dementia, since 1982. Originally working in the charity&rsq
  
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