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• Love, fear and Covid failures in Australia’s aged care

  08-06-2021 19:30
  
  The coronavirus outbreak in Melbourne has spread to aged care, with multiple cases linked to one facility: Arcare in Maidstone. For young carer Ai-Lin, whose 86-year-old grandmother Ann lives at the facility, this outbreak raises serious questions about Australia’s aged care system and the federal government’s vaccination rollout.Laura Murphy-Oates speaks to Ai-Lin about her experience as a young carer living through the pandemicYou can also read: Continue reading...
  
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• Edinburgh care home partners with physiotherapist to help reduce trip ups

  08-06-2021 10:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  WITH the easing of lockdown restrictions, an Edinburgh care home is resuming its physiotherapy-led falls prevention class which looks to prevent falls and support residents’ mobility and wellbeing.Cramond Residence had been holding weekly classes with reduced numbers, led by the home’s lifestyle coordinators, but as of early April they have reinstated the specialist physiotherapists from Balanced to resume their classes as normal.
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• Adept Care Homes receive keys to purpose-built Hucknall care home

  08-06-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Family-run, award winning Adept Care Homes have received the keys to Harrier House, a new multi-million-pound luxury care facility in Hucknall.Harrier House is a purpose built, modern, luxury care home which truly embodies the groups vision of offering both the residents and team a truly superb place to live and work.  Offering a range of wonderful facilities including a roof top café, a pub complete with beer garden, cinema, private dining room, library, hair salon and a spa. The in
  
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• Staff burnout in health and social care putting safety at risk, say MPs

  08-06-2021 07:00
  
  Staff shortages piling pressure on workforce, threatening proper functioning of key servicesBurnout among NHS staff is prompting some to quit, causing medical blunders and putting patients’ safety at risk, a committee of MPs has said.The problem, exacerbated by the pandemic, is so widespread across health and social care that both key public services are in danger of no longer working properly, the Commons select committee that monitors the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said.
  
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