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• Fruit compound may have potential to prevent and treat Parkinson's disease

  29-07-2021 18:22
  Researchers say they have added to evidence that the compound farnesol, found naturally in herbs, and berries and other fruits, prevents and reverses brain damage linked to Parkinson's disease in mouse studies.
  
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• Social care desperately needs funding, and the fairest way is inheritance tax | Zoe Williams

  29-07-2021 13:00
  
  The government’s big idea of raising national insurance is unjust: any levy must be on wealth, not incomeSome problems are intractable because there are too many competing interests. Some are hard to solve because they’re hard to predict. And then there’s social care, which is very straightforward. It may be terrifying to plot our ageing population’s needs into the future – local authorities used to call it “the graph of doom” – but it’s not
  
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• Passion for quality drives new role at Morris Care

  29-07-2021 11:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  Leading care provider Morris Care has strengthened its management team in its drive to maintain and improve high standards to benefit residents and staff.Registered Nurse, Beverly Williams, has been appointed Quality Manager with a wide-ranging brief to support its six nursing homes in Shropshire and Cheshire in delivering quality and compassionate care.The experienced professional has worked in the health and social care sector for almost 40 years. She has been a care home manager, care home in
  
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• Care home resident’s wish come true puts Teddy Edward on the page

  29-07-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Staff at a Dorset dementia care home have helped to fulfil the lifelong wish of a literary-minded resident who dreamt of having her childhood stories published.Rosalind Corkett, who passed away in February aged 89 after living at Colten Care’s Outstanding-rated Longham home Fernhill, wrote three tales with her teddy bear as protagonist when she was growing up in Osterley, West London.The bear, Edward Rupert Ransome Bear, was given to the young Rosalind Ransome by her Aunt Daisy, a fan of t
  
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