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• One in five American adults experience chronic pain

  20-04-2021 15:29
  Researchers report that 50.2 million (20.5 percent) U.S. adults experience chronic pain based on analysis of the new NHIS data. They estimated the total value of lost productivity due to chronic pain to be nearly $300 billion annually.
  
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• Telford based Hands on Care celebrate 10 years in social care

  20-04-2021 08:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  Telford based home-care organisation Hands on Care are celebrating 10 years in business.The independent, family-run business offer a range of in-home care services, including personal care services, social care services and cleaning services.Founded by Mandy Hands, an experienced Healthcare Manager and graduate of the University of Wolverhampton in 2011, Mandy, began the business single handedly.Within the first two years, Hands on Care had employed fifteen members of staff, and now employs sixt
  
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• How Nottingham-based Church Farm Care group evolved during Covid-19

  20-04-2021 08:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  ONE year ago, the UK was plunged into its first nationwide lockdown and, as coronavirus cases surged across the country, care homes closed their doors to visitors. For Nottinghamshire’s specialist dementia care group, Church Farm Care, this meant establishing brand-new ways of working to ensure the safety of the people living and working with them.In addition to closing doors to visitors and investing in more PPE, both changes that are public knowledge, there have been many more internal a
  
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• Joven Flores worked long hours in a care home. Was he too rundown to survive Covid?

  20-04-2021 07:00
  
  He came to the UK from the Philippines to create a good life for his family, but his job was demanding and relentless. Should he and other migrant workers have been better protected?For most of his life, all Joven Flores did was work. Back-to-back shifts as a chef, working weekends, overtime. Uncomplainingly, Joven tossed, marinated, sliced, kneaded, ordered produce, wiped down worktops and stacked plastic food boxes. On his occasional days off, Joven would prepare meals so that his family would
  
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