Children and adults with disabilities and health conditions, no matter how complex, want to receive their care and support at home and in their local communities. This is what is
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A charity has set up an “online breath test” which can help detect lung problems. People who get out of breath doing every day tasks such as walking up stairs
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Vulnerable older people are being denied regular showers and visits to the toilet because of cuts to social care budgets, a UNISON report has warned today. The Damage: Care in
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This report focuses on the role of nurses in the care and support of older people and has been developed in partnership with Age NI. The work has seen the
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Each year, more than 250,000 missing person reports are made to the police in the UK alone. The loss can have a profound emotional effect on the families left behind,
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This series of toolkits has been designed to equip care homes with ideas and materials in order for them to provide a service focused on residents’ needs, preferences and activity
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Researchers based at the Social Care Workforce Research Unit at King’s College London are conducting a programme of research funded by NIHR/SSCR into Local Authority telecare use for older people.
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A new report says those in Wales who suffered four or more adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are more than twice as likely to be diagnosed with a chronic disease in
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A new listening programme to find out more about the experiences of people with dementia and their carers starts in England. The Department of Health’s (DH) listening programme will include
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NSPCC has put out a call for a rapid literature review to identify interventions, campaigns, activities and community behaviours which are effective in preventing parents facing adversity going on to
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