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Joseph Fox, who suffered a mini stroke when he was 17, took these photos to illustrate survivors' experiences.
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Supporters say it helps those with dementia, but the sight of an older person cuddling an 'empathy doll' can disturb relatives The image of an older person cuddling and singing to a child's doll can be strange and disturbing, yet doll therapy is being used by a growing number of care homes...
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Government's swill see more pressure on adult social care departments, but could also lead to a new role in offering information and advice The shortcomings of the government's proposals for a cap of £75,000 (or £72,000 as is now being suggested) on individual liabilities for long-term care funding...
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A report shows how stretched resources can be made to go further when health, housing and social care services collaborate For Bruce Wall, it's not about the money, it's about having his own life back. Wall, who is tetraplegic after a serious motorcycle accident nearly 20 years ago, says moving...
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Labour's promising experiment 'barely got out of the lab', yet could teach us a lot about health and social care integration The Labour party's new-found enthusiasm for total integration of health and social care begs the question of what it did to advance such an agenda during 13 years...
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This event highlights how important it is to move the image of black mental health away from negative, gloomy statistics For many years after I was diagnosed with a mental illness, it became my very own elephant in the room – always there but never discussed. Not with my friends, not with my family and...
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The health and wellbeing impact made by not-for-profit home repair schemes doesn't always get the recognition it deserves Mrs H was in her late 80s, lived alone and sometimes had difficulty breathing. She rarely left home, had no family and didn't want to bother health or social services. No...
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Social care, the NHS, housing and voluntary sector services must work together to make care more personalised An estimated 10 million people in the UK have a neurological condition, such as Parkinson's, multiple sclerosis or dementia, that impacts their lives. As many health and social care professionals...
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The watchdog has been making serious efforts to restore professional confidence, but news that it may appoint a former Conservative party chief executive as its chair is concerning The Care Quality Commission is the public bulwark against neglect and abuse in health and social care. That's why the...
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Reports suggest the availability of doctors in care homes has fallen short of what residents are entitled to. So what can be done to ensure these patients get the care they deserve? How we care for our increasingly elderly population at home, in hospital or in residential care is throwing up a great...
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All staff, from cleaners to chief executives, should know how to raise concerns over abuse and ensure they are listened to While there is a sense of some justice that carers from the notorious Winterbourne View hospital are now in jail, there is still one terrible tragedy that remains unaddressed. How...
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Medical intervention is appropriate for people who are sick, but not normally for people who are well – whether they are disabled or not Norman Lamb has been the care services minister at the Department of Health for just a few weeks, and it seems that the integration of health and social care services...
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Countries are responding in different ways to the increasing number of older people, but should we be looking closer to home? There is widespread agreement that our systems of health and social care can no longer adequately meet the needs and expectations of the increasing number of people living into...
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New research maps the number of telecare users, and looks at how to maximise its potential Telecare has long been tipped as the future of social care. Yet little has really been known about who uses it, or who could in future. This gap in evidence is important: for all telecare's apparent potential...
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A suitable home is vital for maintaining independence, so housing must be part of the debate around integrating health and social care When last month's social care white paper announced it would "set out new duties to … ensure that adult social care and housing departments work together"...
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