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Results also show widespread misconceptions around weight loss, appetite and diet
New research shows released during UK Malnutrition Awareness Week has revealed that a quarter (25%) of people in Britain aged 65 and over ate less during
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Carers call for better information on issues
Care providers are calling on the Government for greater clarity on key issues in the fight against Covid-19 as deaths from the virus in care and nursing homes inch up again.
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St Barnabas Hospice has been given a £110,401 boost as their Dragonfly fundraising campaign nears completion.
Following on from the successful Forget-Me-Not appeal in 2019
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The government’s flagship immigration bill that would end freedom of movement rules in post-Brexit UK has been defeated in the House of Lords, after peers ratified an amendment
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Need to nominate one relative to be a safe visitor
Care providers have written to the Government calling for a single, nominated, and tested visitor to be allowed to visit a family member in care and nursing homes.
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By Thomas Owens, senior copywriter at Webster Wheelchairs (https://websterwheelchairs.co.uk)
If there is one disease more dreadful than cancer diagnosis, then Alzheimer’s might be it. There are few illnesses that are more draining, emotionally,
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By Daniel Casson, Adviser on Digital Transformation at Care England
A fascinating report has just been released by Future Care Capital (FCC) and Ipsos MORI on the use of social media analysis by frontline workers during the
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Those who stand up for what is right have always been integral to the moral wellbeing of our society. They are moral barometers. Our attitude towards them is
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During this current period, it’s even more imperative that we consider relationship-centred care and explore ways that we can connect more with the
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Yesterday evening, the government published the grant conditions for round two of the Infection Control Fund, which sets out how an additional £546 million of funding is to be used to reduce
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Measures introduced to protect older people from COVID-19 may be as detrimental as the virus itself, according to local charitable organisation Belong.
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Responding to the Prime Minister‘s announcement of the 40 hospitals that will be built by 2030 as part of the package worth £3.7 billion of extra capital investment for the NHS
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A resident from Willowbeck, one of the Exemplar Health Care specialist care homes in Sheffield, has raised nearly £1700 in one day for wildlife charities Born Free and Animal Asia.
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Key failings included decisions to discharge thousands of untested hospital patients into care homes and imposition of blanket DNARs
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A national online campaign launched by author and broadcaster Gyles Brandreth to bring young and old together to share the joy of poems has been boosted by a Royal recital.
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