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Keeping the brain active by working later in life may be an effective way to ward off Alzheimer’s disease, research suggests.
Researchers analysed data from 1,320 dementia patients, including 382 men.
They found that for the men, continuing to work late in life helped keep the brain sharp enough to delay dementia taking hold.
The study was carried out by the Institute of Psychiatry at King’s College London.
Source: BBC – Read full story
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A CARE home has been boarded up – despite residents and their families still being officially consulted on its closure.
Blackburn with Darwen Council announced plans to close Brookside Care Home, in Pearl Street, as a “plan B” to cut costs for elderly care after it failed to sell three of its five homes.
No official decision to close the home has yet been taken, but the last resident moved out this week and the 29 staff are still unsure where they will be working in the future.
Fifteen residents out of a capacity of 24 were living at the care home when the closure plans were announced, but staff said many had been unhappy to leave.
One, who contacted the Lancashire Telegraph but asked to remain anonymous, said: “The consultation for the residents seems to us to have just been people coming round with catalogues from other homes and telling residents they are probably going to have to move out whatever happens, so that’s what they and their families have done.
“Some of them were crying when they were leaving – for people who have been here a long time and got used to the staff and the house, it’s a real upheaval for them and it was horrible to have to watch them move out.”
Another added: “At the moment, we are all working at the other homes, but some are miles away at Longshaw and the council are paying for taxis to get staff there.
“I’m sure they won’t do that once the consultation is over and the move is permanent, but we all live within five minutes of Brookside – we can’t afford to get across to the other side of Blackburn to another home. We just don’t know what’s going to happen.”
The council’s opposition leader, Kate Hollern, said: “How can they have a consultation when the building is already closed? It couldn’t be any clearer that as far as they are concerned the decision has already been made.”
The council’s director of adult social services Stephen Sloss said: “Moving out was a choice that residents and their families made and is something that we have endeavoured to support them with.
“However, the final decision whether or not to close the home has not yet been taken.”
Source: Lancashire Telegraph: Read full story
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ELM CITY (WTVD) — A fire damaged part of a nursing home facility and has left dozens of residents homeless.
The fire happened at the Applewood Assisted Living Facility on Parker Street in Elm City around 10:45 p.m. on Saturday.
“They were all just hysterical,” said Mary Hamm, whose mother works at the facility. “They don’t really know, but they did one time they think it might have started in one of the resident’s rooms.”
Five different fire departments were called to the scene. Authorities say the fire started in a patient’s room from what might have been a cigarette.
“We found the origin of where the fire did start in that room,” Toisnot Fire Chief Lin Jones said. “That’s what we suspect, possibly somebody could be smoking. It hasn’t been confirmed that that’s what it was, but it’s what we suspect at this point.”
There were not any reports of serious injuries, but some people were taken to the hospital with minor injuries.
“No burns, no cuts, nothing major,” Toisnot Fire Chief Lin Jones said. “Everybody was released and sent home.”
Most of the 50 people living in the facility lost their possessions in the inferno as it gutted the building. One of the front wings of the building was destroyed, while the other wings suffered smoke and water damage.
“It’s either burned up or heavy water damage that was there,” Jones said. “Because basically, they got the people out, didn’t worry about trying to get others stuff.
Source: ABC Local. Read full story
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