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• Fewer older people are having strokes

  10-02-2021 22:59
  A new study has found that people age 70 and older are having fewer strokes, and fewer people of all ages are dying from the disease.
  
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• Derek Law becomes Cornwall Care trustee

  10-02-2021 10:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Cornwall Care has appointed Derek Law MBE as a trustee – a man nationally honoured for the difference he has made in improving life for older people.Derek, who lives in St Agnes, has spent 40 years working in the adult social care sector. Senior roles have included social service directorships at Cornwall Council, North Yorkshire County Council and the Royal Borough of Greenwich. He was chair of Coastline Housing Limited for 8 years and, whilst leading the social services team in Yorkshire
  
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• Local Supermarket Delivery is Icing on the Cake for Care Home Residents

  10-02-2021 08:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  Keen to help them stay occupied in lockdown, staff of the local supermarket delivered some cakes and decorating tools to residents at Dene Holm Residential Care Home.It’s frosty outside but there was plenty of frosting inside this week too, as Chris Bradford of the Morrisons store in Coldharbour Road, Northfleet delivered some sweet treats to the residents of the residential care home, which were sure to keep them busy on a rainy afternoon.The delicious delivery included fairy cakes with p
  
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• Care homes failed by lack of PPE during UK Covid first wave, say MPs

  10-02-2021 01:01
  
  Report says government mishandling put lives at risk and exposes potential conflict of interests Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageCare homes were left exposed and vulnerable by a lack of personal protective equipment early in the pandemic, while the government’s handling of the procurement left ministers open to accusations of conflicts of interest, MPs have found.A damning report published on Wednesday by the Commons public accounts committee (PAC) conclud
  
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