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• Tailoring wearable technology and telehealth in treating Parkinson's disease

  18-08-2021 19:52
  Wearable health technologies are vastly popular with people wanting to improve their physical and mental health. Everything from exercise, sleep patterns, calories consumed and heart rhythms can be tracked by a wearable device. But timely and accurate data is also especially valuable for doctors treating patients with complicated health conditions using virtual care.
  
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• Honor Technology, Inc. announces acquisition of Home Instead

  18-08-2021 09:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  Honor and Home Instead has announced that Honor Technology, Inc. has acquired Home Instead, Inc., effective 6th August 2021.  The acquisition brings together the world’s biggest home care brand – and UK’s largest home care network – with the leading home care technology and operations platform to transform the caregiver and client experience and revolutionise care for older adults. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced.Honor’s technology an
  
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• How the pandemic exposed the crisis in children’s social care

  18-08-2021 04:00
  
  Children’s services have reached breaking point in some areas as family breakdown and a lack of funding have resulted in a perfect storm A Guardian investigation into the state of children’s services in the last 18 months has revealed a sharp rise in social services referrals during lockdown, plus spiralling costs for mental health support and a bulging backlog in the family courts, with some councils buckling under the weight of the extra work brought by coronavirus.The Guardian&rsq
  
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