Researchers are trialling an artificial-intelligence system which they believe can diagnose dementia after one brain scan. Those involved in the work said being able to intervene earlier could help with
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A woman has claimed that her mother-in-law’s treatment in a care home during the Covid-19 pandemic was “tantamount to torture”, and that they were not told of her worsening condition.
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The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has today published data showing death notifications involving COVID-19 received from individual care homes between 10 April 2020 and 31 March 2021. This is accompanied by their CQC Insight
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Around 40,000 care home staff risk being lost as a result of introducing compulsory Covid-19 vaccinations in England and could cost the industry £100 million to replace, according to the
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Relatives of care home residents have said it is a “national scandal” that restrictions will continue in care homes while they will be torn up for the rest of society
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The damage that care home visitors wearing face masks is doing to the welfare of residents is outweighing the protection they offer, a care home group has said. The need
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A team of researchers from the University of Hertfordshire, Leeds Beckett University and the University of Nottingham have been awarded over £300,000 of funding from the Alzheimer’s Society to co-design
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Mandatory vaccination against coronavirus of care home staff is “unnecessary, disproportionate, and misguided”, academics have warned. Government plans to make Covid-19 jabs a condition of deployment for care home staff
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Care home residents are picking up their boxing gloves as the train for their own version of the Olympics. With just weeks to go before the Tokyo 2020 games get
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The limit on how many named visitors a care home resident can receive will be lifted at the final stage of the road map out of lockdown, but some protective
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