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• Thanks for caring

  
  Groves Media — Authority: 92
  Its been a while. Life has ticked along as normal since my last post – working, relaxing, caring, laughing, worrying, stressing, joking, cycling, working. The same old same old – or, in other words, life is good. I’ve been thinking for weeks about what I should write today for Carers Rights Day and I keep ...
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• State Report Raises Concerns About Nursing Home Employee Responsibilities (VA. USA)

  
  Spotlight on Elder Abuse — Authority: 140
  State report raises concerns about nursing home employee responsibilities By   MICHAEL OWENS   Reporter / Bristol Herald Courier Not every member of National Healthcare Bristol’s nursing home staff knew they were required by law to report patient abuse, according to an October ...
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• Driver who killed teens loses appeal

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  A motorist who killed six teenage pedestrians in a crash near Mildura in north-west Victoria in 2006 has lost his application for leave to appeal against his jail term. Thomas Graham Towle was sentenced to 10 years jail with a minimum of seven over the crash at Cardross in which six teenagers died and four others ...
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• If you’re a carer, know your rights and protect your pension!

  
  People's Republic of South Devon The Peoples Republic of South Devon — Authority: 143
  The Carers Rights Day campaign, on Friday, December 4, seeks to increase the take-up of benefits and raise awareness of carers’ rights and the support that they may be able to get in order to protect their pensions. There are over six million unpaid carers in the UK who provide care and support to family, friends ...
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• Judge Hands Down Sentence in Elder Abuse Case (USA)

  
  Spotlight on Elder Abuse — Authority: 140
  Judge hands down sentence in elder abuse case By  STEPHANIE PORTER-NICHOLS December 1, 2009 By DAN KEGLEY/Staff An incapacitated victim of elder abuse testified in court from a gurney last week at the sentencing hearing for the woman who had been her caretaker. Mabel Seabolt, 84, of ...
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• Point of care? The Kings Fund - patient experience

  
  Hodges' Model: Welcome to the QUAD — Authority: 127
  The real point of care is that there are several points with many perspectives: Patient (person) - Care professional - Manager - Carer Public (citizen) - Student - Lecturer - Service User Groups Physical - Emotional - Political - Social Patient - Inspectors - CEO information governance ...
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• Liberal turmoil clouds debate on climate bills

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  The Federal Opposition looks set to change leaders, as the emissions trading legislation that sparked the Liberal row comes back before the Senate. The Upper House failed to meet the Governments deadline of passing the scheme by last week, prompting the Governments Senate leader, Chris Evans, to accuse the Opposition ...
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• Rudd plays careful hand at CHOGM

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudds appearance at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is an exercise in double-purpose diplomacy. First, he wants to keep a high profile among his Commonwealth colleagues, meeting all the big players of this 53-nation group: Britains Gordon Brown, Indias Manmohan Singh, South ...
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• Caring for dad takes its toll

  
  Dear Miriam - Mirror.co.uk — Authority: 483
  Dear Miriam... Some people assume, like my neighbour does, that being a carer involves sitting around the house drinking tea, eating biscuits and watching telly. I met her while I was queuing in the chemist to pick up a prescription for my dad. Hes 84, has emphysema and chronic arthritis. Just leaving him for ...
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• Moving on Individual Budgets

  
  Fighting Monsters — Authority: 123
  And so it starts. Currently we are still in ‘pilot’ phase of the Individual Budget roll-out – the forefront of the personalisation and self-directed support agenda and if that sentence made little sense to you – you can probably count yourself lucky! Very basically there is an ideologically  welcome move ...
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• Alleged Elder Abuser Scheduled For A Plea Hearing (MN. USA)

  
  Spotlight on Elder Abuse — Authority: 140
  Larson Hearing Is Slated For December By  Sarah Stultz    Albert Lea Tribune November 23, 2009 Nineteen-year-old Ashton Larson, one of the two young women charged with alleged elder abuse at Good Samaritan Society of Albert Lea, is scheduled for a plea hearing Dec. 17 in Freeborn ...
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• Indigenous News Update – Health

  
  BitingTheDust — Authority: 127
  Bidyadanga has lost 3 nurses in 6 months. Only 2 remain in WA’s largest indigenous community http://bit.ly/1H2Hha Tom Calma – ‘Indigenous health is a matter of human rights’ http://bit.ly/462uFh Deaths from meningococcal disease reduced to 1/4 of the level before vaccine introduced ...
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• Website for disability, aged, and carers

  
  newcastleonhunter.com — Authority: 147
  NEW WEBSITE FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING CENTREMinister for Disability Services Paul Lynch today launched a new website that will provide valuable information to people with a disability, older people, carers and health professionals. Launching the Independent Living Centre “@T Magic” website in Parramatta today, Mr ...
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• SNUG fit for carers in need

  
  newcastleonhunter.com — Authority: 147
  A HELPING HAND FOR REGIONAL CARERSThe Steve Waugh Foundation has thrown its support behind a unique program offering respite to regional families who have children with a rare disease or illness. SNUG (Special Needs Unlimited Group) provides assistance with medical care, recreational activities and the opportunity for ...
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• Melroses EPOCH Abuse Case Continued Without a Finding (CA. USA)

  
  Spotlight on Elder Abuse — Authority: 140
  By Daniel DeMaina Nov 19, 2009 A former certified nurse aide at Melrose’s   EPOCH Senior Healthcare   nursing home, who in August pled not guilty to charges that she punched and pushed down an 83-year-old resident of the nursing home who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease, changed her ...
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• Caregiver Jailed for Abusing Veterans (CANADA)

  
  Spotlight on Elder Abuse — Authority: 140
  By MEGAN GILLIS , Sun Media       The Ottawa Sun November 19, 2009 Susan Davies, the daughter of the only surviving victim of Fouberts abuse, had to listen to her father beg not to be hurt. (Sun Media) Family members literally applauded a judge’s sentence of eight months for a ...
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• Safeguarding Seniors From Abuse By Carers (BERMUDA)

  
  Spotlight on Elder Abuse — Authority: 140
  Safeguarding seniors from abuse by carers Lessons to be learned after the Gaynette Holder case Caregiver Gaynette Holder was found guilty on Monday of stealing more than $30,000 from former marine pilot George Welch and jailed for a year. When she is released from prison there will be nothing ...
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• Caregiver Investigated In Patients Deaths

  
  Spotlight on Elder Abuse — Authority: 140
  Caregiver Investigated In Patients Deaths Nov 17, 2009 By  David Goldstein A local nurses assistant has been charged with drugging seven of her elderly patients. Three of them died. Police are now investigating to see if murder charges can be filed.  "My mom says to me, Ive done my grieving. God ...
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• Caring For Elderly Should Be Promoted As A Career (UK)

  
  Spotlight on Elder Abuse — Authority: 140
  November 16, 2009 Caring for the elderly should become a recognised profession and be recommended to school leavers as a rewarding career to meet the demand for higher standards in homes, ministers will be told tomorrow. Dame Joan Bakewell, the Government-appointed adviser on old age, says she has been taken ...
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• User and carer views of CAMHS intensive home treatment service in Bradford

  
  Lancashire Care Library and Information Service — Authority: 145
  User and carer views of CAMHS intensive home treatment service in Bradford, Practice Development in Health Care, 2009   Jhansi Rani et al…    Consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Laura Mitchell Health Centre, Halifax, UK Abstract:   We report the views of young people and ...
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