Carers told his family he had fallen on the lawn.
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It is now talking about relaxing requirements for Filipino carers.
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Many doctors and carers from the continent work in Britain.
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Doctors, nursing home carers and police have complained of shortages.
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Previously, carers were reimbursed with a low flat rate for sleep-ins.
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She has a team of carers, and Paterson visits her most days.
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At the Jacksons' the carers were coming only twice a week now.
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This banking reform is currently part of the CARERS Act of 2017.
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The one that came first made the biggest impact – the CARERS Act.
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UK-based Cera provides an online marketplace that matches carers to patients.
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The impact is that carers are paid to do things for him.
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"It is vitally important that foster carers are offered the support and training they need to be able to look after highly traumatized young people," said a spokesman for Fostering Network, a charity that supports foster carers in Britain.
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When the CNN crew returned home, they kept in touch with Elysee's carers.
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Cera, launched last November, was designed to match carers with people seeking assistance.
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All of this leads to more pressure on informal carers, usually family members.
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Caregivers on the platform range from full-time nurses to part-time carers.
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We need fewer cultural warriors and more pastoral carers in the Catholic hierarchy.
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And almost three-quarters say they would worry about disclosing their sexuality to carers.
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Canada created a scheme for them in 1973, mostly targeting agricultural workers and carers.
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Carers can specify they want a wheelchair-accessible vehicle The partnership with Uber also means that Cera's carers, and the people they are caring for, will be able to book Uber's cars for a variety of purposes, including travel to and from hospitals.
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There are currently 143,214 foster families in the UK, but young carers are a rarity.
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Some new mothers leave their jobs because they prefer to be their children's main carers.
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By 2026 America will have more at-home carers than secretaries, according to official projections.
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Year on year there has been cuts to funding for housing, carers and support workers.
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There are currently 55,000 foster families in the UK, but young carers are a rarity.
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She was neglected by her own mother, an alcoholic, and raised partly by foster carers.
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Robot technology has much further to go if the machines are to replace human carers.
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Traditionally among the poorest paid of the workforce, carers are an ever more scarce resource.
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Tee tells TechCrunch she realized the need for a caregiving platform while looking for carers.
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"The emotional and psychological impact on patients and their carers is substantial," the article's authors wrote.
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A shortage of good teachers and carers is an acute problem in the world of education.
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Their aim was to win an increase in state subsidies for family carers of disabled people.
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FOREIGN cashiers and carers are now a fact of life in Japan, especially in urban areas.
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They translated the text for their son's carers, and later showed it to Mr Mitchell's publisher.
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A regular "dementia cafe" will start this month, offering stimulation for sufferers and support for carers.
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In 2014, three-year-old William Tyrell went missing from his foster carers' home in NSW.
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Due to privacy laws, his carers were not initially allowed to speak out to the public.
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Doctors, nursing home carers, the police and other frontline staff have decried a shortage of masks.
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Given Japan's rapidly aging population, such a system could make life for carers a lot easier.
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Liverpool city council has commissioned Karen Caffrey's company, Home Carers, to look after pensioners for 219 years.
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Today Germany lacks 20153,22015 nurses and carers; by 22015 it will need 216,000 as its population greys.
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Piper, in an attempt to get Maria and her friends in trouble more often, creates Community Carers.
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Evolutionary biologists (mostly female) have at least found a role for us as carers to the familial line.
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One common preconception of young carers is that they foster because they can't have kids of their own.
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He was a sponsor of the CARERS Act, another piece of federal legislation that focuses on medical cannabis.
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Young children, accompanied by mothers and carers, sing along as a copy of "Old MacDonald" is waved aloft.
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According to Tal Dekel-Daks for Departures, Norland nannies are the choice child-carers among the UK elite.
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Cera is a UK-based health tech firm that provides an online marketplace for matching carers to patients.
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" And speaking of the parents and carers and children she has met and heard about over the year, she said it "has been reaffirming and immensely heartening to hear from the parents and carers you work with about what they need, and what they want for the children in their care.
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The carers estimate at least 10 days will be needed to assess the full damage to the koala population.
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"When we go to an elderly home, there are about two carers for every 50 old people," said Goffin.
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"My ambition, once married, would be for our family to be foster carers," he wrote, according to The Guardian.
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This will bring together health alerts, in-home sensors and professional carers to transform what it means to care.
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The royal has centered her public work around helping to support families, carers and children in their early years.
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"Thank you Thomas for proving that there is life even after sight," wrote his carers at the center on Facebook.
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It's actually part of a clever little campaign by Seeing Eye Dogs Australia, who are on the lookout for carers.
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Canola was fed a special milk formula infused with canola oil, which gave her carers the inspiration for her name.
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All of her online interactions are spread across computers and phones belonging to her friends, foster carers, and her school.
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Everyone from the supermarket staff to the transport workers to the carers to the nurses and doctors on the frontline.
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Yet the current market is broken with a lack of transparency, poor quality care and poor working conditions for carers.
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Emergency-relief workers and animal carers have rescued some of the vulnerable creatures that were left without families, food, or homes.
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Elder abuse and neglect by families, carers and institutions are real and dangerous and this is why strong laws are necessary.
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America's National Domestic Workers Alliance operates Fair Care Labs, a service to improve the lot of nannies, carers and house cleaners.
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In addition, the ageing population is creating jobs that few Japanese want at the wages on offer, most notably as carers.
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Your proof may depend on receipt of child benefit or carers' allowance; ie, getting money out rather than putting it in.
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An assortment of sites, like MindMyHouse, House Carers and TrustedHouseSitters, that cater to house sitters have popped up in recent years.
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However, his carers did pass on a birthday wish: for humans to help conserve his native habitat and save his species.
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In New South Wales, wildlife carers Gary Wilson and Julie Willis opened their homes to take in injured and orphaned baby animals.
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If 10% of them were to take up such work, the country would have an additional 700,000 carers by 2025, it reckons.
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Many of the children are not necessarily missing, however, but rather officials were simply unable to make phone contact with their carers.
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It introduced community-based and comprehensive care, and set up a one-year diploma course to train more carers in mental health.
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The rules are aimed at workers in the gig economy, though they will also apply to caretakers, maids, carers and many others.
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A care-home industry leader defended the carers, saying they were being forced to work without enough protective equipment, El País reported.
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On the bookings side, Homage helps organizations manage fluctuations in demand, since many families only need carers a few days a week.
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"Our audience is usually in that 50-plus age group, because they are looking after their partner or they're professional carers," she said.
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Yet, along with their brother, they have also set up a charity to support other young carers of parents with mental health difficulties.
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They noticed they kept drawing on their professional networks or using Google when trying to find other carers and support networks for clients.
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Her carers immediately assembled a make-shift NICU, but at just 29 pounds, they weren't sure if she was going to make it.
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The main reason why women are less likely than men to reach higher-level positions is that they are their children's primary carers.
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There are collective actions — I helped start a Parents and Carers group at MoMA to organize around these issues — and individual ones too.
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Speaking to Business Insider in the wake of the raise, Maruthappu said the money will be used to roll out its "Smart Care" technology to care companies across the UK.This technology aims to digitize the whole care process: from the onboarding of users and carers and their matching; to back-office functions; to letting carers log information about their visits on their smartphones.
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The company's tech platform lets carers manage their programs, communicate with parents and take payments online, while giving parents program, enrollment and tuition information.
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Yet as demand for health care outstrips the supply of human carers, the future may involve consultations on smartphones and measurements monitored by chatbots.
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Animal carers at the Port Macquarie Koala Hospital nearby have been nursing rescued koalas, bandaging their wounds and feeding them eucalyptus leaves and formula.
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"It has been truly inspirational to see our doctors, nurses and other carers rise magnificently to the needs of the hour," Johnson will say.
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One way of encouraging this would be to give priority to those who have worked as carers when allocating places in nursing homes, says McKinsey.
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Carers at the zoo have said that both baby and mum are in good health and will be ready to meet the public real soon.
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We need to engage carers, voluntary groups, nursing homes and patients themselves so they can be empowered to provide good-quality end-of-life care.
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Members of the public, including carers and patients, are being included in research and reform in all kinds of health areas, right from the start.
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Wilson said the details of the 25,000 carers acquired in the deal will be transferred to the HomeTouch site once they had been fully vetted.
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But declining funding for adult social care services, such as home carers, occupational therapists and district nurses, has made these services less available to patients.
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Her mother, who is retired, was based in Brewood, England, as the dementia support and advice project worker at Carers Association Southern Staffordshire in England.
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The dog was there when the giraffe died, and sat in front of the empty room for hours before going to its carers for comfort.
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An example could be a rule making all employees work full-time, which would disproportionately affect women, who are more likely than men to be carers.
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Weighing in at a proud 10 kilograms (22 pounds), Jack is too heavy for his carers at ACT Wildlife, Australia, to bend over and pick up.
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"We hope to help carers deliver the right care, at the right time, to those who need it the most, with a little help from technology".
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A Philippine food market serves a large community of carers for the elderly, there's a makeshift Philippine church, a folksy Yiddish book centre and money changers.
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UK-based Cera provides an online marketplace that matches carers to patients and works with both private and public entities to help the care industry digitize.
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Weighing just 90.5g (3 ounces), Squish, who was named by his carers for his "squish-ability," was fed a special formula consisting of eggs and multi-vitamins.
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These included 700 "carers" who would provide an injured hedgehog with a hot-water bottle and a warm box, or put the small pink feet in splints.
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Other suggestions made by Oxfam to help mitigate inequality included investing in national care systems, challenging sexism, introducing laws to protect carers' rights, and ending extreme wealth.
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Social care startup Cera has partnered with some of the UK's biggest hospitals in a bid to become something similar to an Uber for patients who need carers.
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"I often draw strength from meeting ordinary people doing extraordinary things: volunteers, carers, community organizers and good neighbors; unsung heroes whose quiet dedication makes them special," she said.
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Another result of the greying population is the creation of ever more jobs, most notably as carers, that few Japanese want to do at the wages on offer.
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Families scouting for wives for their sons are looking for their own future carers and housemates, given the tradition of brides moving into the in-laws' family home.
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"It's like high fashion because you need carers and some of them can't walk for a long time, so you need to take taxis everywhere," Vais tells me.
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The disease is a major cause of disability and dependency among older people and "can devastate the lives of affected individuals, their carers and families," the organization said.
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Thank you to the nurses and carers, from the Philippines, Bulgaria and elsewhere, who looked after my mother when she was confined to a nursing home with dementia.
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At the very least, they are changing the Diet, where alterations under way will improve wheelchair access and rules are being amended to allow carers into closed meetings.■
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He has promised to provide enough carers and professional nurses to look after them, and plans to send them to a nearby international school when the time comes.
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Australia's wildlife carers are set to work "around the clock" through Christmas to deal with the impact of the deadly wildfires on the country's unique wildlife, Reuters reports.
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William and Kate and the Norwegian couple sit around a camp fire and talk about ski school and kindergarten with carers and kids in Ovresetertjern, near Oslo #RoyalVisitNorway pic.twitter.
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We had had enough of the absence of women at the top of major businesses and the huge numbers forced into low-paid work or unpaid employment as carers.
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Pathak says Care24 is able to handle that volume because of its technology platform, which allows carers to access training and communicate with clients using only their mobile devices.
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They are people with disabilities: activists associated with ADAPT, and the unaffiliated individuals and carers who came forward to share their experiences and to demand better from the GOP.
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All EU workers would also have the right to five days of carers' leave per year to take care of seriously ill or dependent relatives, paid as sick leave.
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Charities have called for specialist foster carers to be trained to look after trafficked children and for the setting up of safe houses with high levels of support and supervision.
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The new service will become available to Cera carers in London first — the company hasn't yet announced whether it will become available in other cities (or countries) in the future.
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Another plus is that pet owners tend to be dedicated carers who are very knowledgeable about their four-legged companions and are likely to report even small changes in symptoms.
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Carers say the pup – who a neighborhood woman said was a stray that she took in – will need many more surgeries and months of rehab to recover from this injury.
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While debates around robots nowadays centre predominantly around how they'll steal our jobs or be our carers, back in the 1920s they were were associated mainly with performance and wonder.
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Parents and carers have to check a variety of online listings, noticeboards and council websites, while looking out for posters and flyers in public places like coffee shops and libraries.
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Its service economy has plenty of lovely jobs (software designers, bankers and insurance brokers) and plenty of lousy ones (cleaners, dish-washers and carers), but not much in the middle.
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Wider society scarcely acknowledges these problems and most of those on the receiving end, whether carers or people being cared for, are simply too overwhelmed to do much about them.
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She sits on the BMJ's patient panel, which promotes co-production in the research it publishes and invites patients, their carers and advocates to comment on articles alongside peer review.
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What happens is that women and carers of all genders quietly exhaust themselves filling in the gaps, trying to save as many people as possible from physical and mental collapse.
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WIRESNSW Wildlife Information, Rescue and Education Service (WIRES) rescues and cares for animals and is seeking donations for volunteer carers and rescuers that are "inundated" with them amid the bushfires.
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Future colleagues or carers These traits could enable robots to perceive their surroundings with more sensitivity, and give them the ability to interact with humans and anticipate and avoid accidents.
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Lifted is on a mission to change this by harnessing the power of technology and data to transform the quality of care and improve the lives of carers and families.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Wildlife carers in Australia are ready to work around the clock over Christmas, preparing for more admissions particularly for baby animals stressed by hot weather, bushfires and drought.
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Philippe also promised an extra 1.5 billion euros over three years for hospitals, including an 800 euro bonus for 2.23,000 nurses and carers earning less than 1,900 euros per month.
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Philippe also promised an extra 1.5 billion euros over three years for hospitals, including an 800 euro bonus for 2.23,000 nurses and carers earning less than 1,900 euros per month.
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At the same time, the company has also joined with Uber itself to provide transport for these carers and patients, making it easier for them to make their way back home.
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Carers will also be able to book fully wheelchair-accessible cars through Uber's UberWAV service, or for passengers who may need help collapsing walkers or other mobility aids, its UberASSIST service.
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Rather than provide only institutional care and medicine, some towns, such as Matsudo, north-east of Tokyo, have set up cafés to offer advice and companionship to patients and their carers.
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In January 2015, Kate closed the door while arriving at an event hosted by The Fostering Network to celebrate the work of foster carers in providing support to vulnerable young people.
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In fact, four of the six companies that offer the highest levels of paid parental leave (at least 533 weeks for primary carers) are in tech: Nvidia, IBM, Intel and Microsoft.
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Doctors, carers, and patients, who say cannabis offers respite from conditions including chronic pain and multiple sclerosis, said the development is a major breakthrough, ending months of legal and procedural deadlock.
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Women are less likely than men to reach higher-level positions because they are more usually their children's primary carers, so work fewer hours or switch to less demanding roles. 10.
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"Parents, carers and families are at the heart of caring for children in the formative years, so that is why I want to listen to them," Kate said at the launch.
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Since her previous exposure - when Ebola killed a number of her relatives - had rendered her immune, she was able to make direct contact with sick patients that most carers could not.
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Businesses in Japan have begun to open fitness clubs that cater to the elderly while robot carers have been introduced to nursing homes, high-value devices that could become lucrative exports.
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Both the boys she looks after—David•, aged 10, and 14-year-old Michael*—have significant behavioral issues and came to her from other foster carers who could no longer manage them.
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"Without extra colleagues from abroad, U.K. carers are going to have even less time to do the job they're employed to do and offer people the dignity they deserve," Ms. Walker said.
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The VR film she watched is the work of a project called The Wayback, designed to trigger memories and emotions in people with dementia and help them re-engage with relatives and carers.
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The deal will help doctors in London select and request assistance from a pool of trained carers who can help patients with tasks at home, potentially freeing up hospital beds for additional people.
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She describes days that became a dance of carers and nurses, the distance that grew between her and her husband—each trapped in their own worlds—and the depression that came over her.
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The idea behind CareKit is for developers to build new apps that make it easier for patients to collect data about their health, log their symptoms, and share information with medics and carers.
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Cory Booker: I was talking about what the art of the possible was, and why one of the first things I led with was [the CARERS Act], a bipartisan bill on medical marijuana.
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Home-based carers can be found across Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second largest city, where they work with local clinics to monitor tuberculosis (TB) and HIV patients, making sure they take their medication as prescribed.
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Despite bipartisan support in his own committee, Grassley, who is currently up for reelection, has refused to give the Compassionate Access, Research Expansion, and Respect States (CARERS) Act a hearing in his committee.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A British online service that matches elderly and disabled patients with home carers is expanding nationwide by adding another 13,000 care professionals to its database, founder Jamie Wilson said on Monday.
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For example, many are using their technology to connect essential workers with carers or provide emergency child care, helping providers navigate government aid programs and, in some cases, raising their own relief funds.
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In the U.K., for instance, youth caregivers (also called "young carers") are recognized as having rights that must be respected by local and national governments, caregiving advocacy groups, health care services, and schools.
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"For years those of us who are wildlife photographers, birdwatchers, and carers of wildlife, have been documenting the activities of you poachers and criminals around many of our nation's wildlife refuges," he wrote.
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Researchers leading this trial said the brain-computer interface (BCI), which is non-invasive, could transform the lives of such patients, allowing them to express feelings and opinion to their loved ones and carers.
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"The TV and film industry has notoriously terrible statistics when it comes to female talent, and this isn't going to change until it gets serious about removing the barriers for parents and carers," she said.
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Pathak says Care24 wants to differentiate by not only having a large pool of providers to pick from, but also improving its technology to match patients with carers as quickly as possible and improve communication.
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The 10-week-old glider and her mum are currently being treated at the Taronga Wildlife Hospital in Sydney, Australia after they were taken in by wildlife carers from rescue organisation WIRES earlier in July.
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Full-time carers or those on a low income may be unable to take the time off work, and undocumented women may be unable to visit a doctor for fear of alerting the immigration authorities.
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Carers have walked out on the job in several homes with coronavirus cases, and many have said they are working in dangerous conditions without enough protective gear, the Spanish newspaper El País reported on Tuesday.
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"For parents and carers, it can be a daunting time to help our children and young people through this period of uncertainty but please don't feel alone," the Countess said from the Royal Family Instagram.
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The royal, who is mom to Prince George, 6, Princess Charlotte, 4, and 1-year-old Prince Louis, has centered her public work around helping to support families, carers and children in their early years.
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At Port Macquarie's Koala Hospital, carers will be looking after 72 koalas on Christmas Day that were brought in after bushfires raised up to three quarters of their habitat, Clinical Director Cheyne Flanagan told Reuters.
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The current-account balance (which remained in surplus for 29 years in a row, thanks to strong remittances from emigrant cleaners, carers, nurses and the like) posted a narrow deficit in 29 that has grown since.
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More from VICE: In our latest research, we had conversations about care experiences and preferences with 33 women and men at least 95 years of age, some over 100, and 39 of their relatives or carers.
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"As much as [my son] adores his daycare and his carers there, he's there 220 hours a week," said Deana Burke, CEO of Gracias, a bitcoin app provider, and mother to a 3-year-old son.
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Last year, the mom of Prince George, 6, Princess Charlotte, 4, and 1-year-old Prince Louis set up a steering group to advise her on child welfare and the challenges faced by parents and carers.
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"These shortsighted plans are in fact more likely to exacerbate the shortages in formal care, leaving it to women to pick up unpaid and increase the number of 'economically inactive' full-time carers," Ms. Reid said.
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A recent survey published by the Fostering Network found that, of the 224,220 foster carers who responded, just 4.2 percent were aged 18-34, compared to 80.3 percent who were aged between 45 and 54 years old.
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A recent survey published by the Fostering Network found that, of the 2,530 foster carers who responded, just 4.2 percent were aged 18-34, compared to 80.3 percent who were aged between 45 and 54 years old.
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"When information is logged on Cera's app, Cera staff are able to see it immediately, as are family members, as are carers, all of which helps when it comes to making real-time decision-making," Maruthappu explained.
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Finally, in an extension of existing laws, all working parents of children up to 12 and carers with dependent relatives would have the right to request reduced or flexible working hours, and possibly choose where they work.
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With its platoon of carers on hand, Cera says it can provide trained assistance either at the hospital bed or at home within 24 hours, as opposed to the weeks it can take the NHS to provide help.
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The service works with both the young person and their carers or birth family to address complex mental health needs, intervening where it becomes clear the child is at risk of being placed in residential or institutional care.
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Careers advisers were trained to offer health advice as well as tips about jobs, and social workers and foster carers were encouraged to identify those most at risk of an early pregnancy and talk to them about relationships.
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However, in the early hours of October 3, during his second operation, a US AC-130 aircraft attacked the hospital for more than half an hour, killing 163 MSF staff, patients, and patient carers, and wounding dozens more.
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UBI is effective, said Boait, because different households have different circumstances – whether the cash is for working parents in the gig economy or stay at home carers, it allows flexibility to spend money where it is really needed.
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Unlike other startup care providers, Lifted directly employs its carers and pays the London Living Wage, which is 20% above the market average for hourly care and is enabled by operational savings achieved by using a technology platform.
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Its most concrete proposals focused on creating a better work-life balance with new EU-wide standards for more generous parental and paternity leave rules, guaranteed carers' leave to tend to ailing family members and flexible working arrangements.
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Australian native animals must first be seen by a veterinarian before they can be sent to a network of 2,600 carers attached to 28 branches of New South Wales state wildlife rescue group WIRES, said spokesman John Grant.
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It affects anyone who cares for Afro-textured hair in general, from Black men and women to parents of Black and mixed race children and foster carers, as well as hairstylists who use these products day in, day out.
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Food and drinks for children were a particular area of focus, Schneider said as he presented a "Nestle for Healthier Kids" campaign that also includes programmes and online services to educate parents and carers on what children should eat.
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HomeTouch, which includes private health provider Bupa amongst its partners, matches carers directly with patients' families, enabling the professional to manage the relationship and typically earn 50-75 percent more than they would earn through an agency, he said.
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Rights groups argue that defaulting towards women as primary carers impedes their careers, with many losing out on promotions as a result of taking time out from the workplace or cutting back their hours to balance work and childcare.
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In advice to parents and carers also included in the document, the CMOs encourage the setting of usage boundaries around devices — saying children should not be allowed to take devices into their bedrooms at bedtime to prevent disruption to sleep.
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The problem is parents and hospital carers aren't necessarily in a position to provide kangaroo care for long periods of time — so the idea is for Hugsy to at least simulate the calming experience of being held by a parent.
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Scrimping on skilled carers is cruel, misguided and ultimately more expensive ROSIE HOARE Ipswich, Suffolk The tone of your article is that being detained under the Mental Health Act, or "being sectioned" as you call it, is punitive and potentially damaging.
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During the procedure, a camera connected to a tube called a colonscope will show live footage of the polyps being removed, and is part of Cancer Research UK's "Right Now" campaign, showing real-life stories of patients, carers and staff.
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"We welcome opportunities to share the perspectives of young people, parents, carers, teachers and others with technology companies like Twitter to help shape the platforms so popular with young people," said Will Gardner, CEO of Childnet, to CNBC via email.
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"Growing old is the first step in losing something, whether that be your sibling, your parent, or your role in society ... the good thing about elderly carers, is that they really understand how our elderly residents are feeling," she said.
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Virtual reality (VR) headsets allow people with dementia to watch films that take them to popular seaside resorts, a 1940s sweetshop or a 1950s street party, to recall thoughts and emotions and help them re-engage with relatives and carers.
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The startup has today taken the tiniest baby steps to launch an AI chatbot that it hopes will, at an unspecified point in future, be able to assist carers with recommendations for home care of people with conditions such as dementia.
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"If robots are supposed to function as teachers, friends, or carers, for instance, then it will be a serious problem if all of these roles are only ever occupied by robots that are racialized as White," according to the study.
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Separately on Monday, Bernstein food retail analyst Bruno Monteyne said that in a pandemic scenario parents and carers of the sick would be unable to work, leading to a broader impact on supply chains than only those who contract the virus.
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The "Clap for our Carers" initiative, which has been widely spread on social media, encourages people to deliver a round of applause at 2000 GMT to show their appreciation to doctors, nurses, and all those tackling the COVID-19 outbreak.
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Separately on Monday, Bernstein food retail analyst Bruno Monteyne cautioned that in a pandemic scenario parents and carers of the sick will be unable to work, leading to a broader impact on supply chains than only those who become ill.
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Mostly he thinks about being sent to boarding school at 11 and what it means to take a child "away from all of their primary carers and everything that's familiar and into an institution that ultimately is indifferent," he said.
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Another FTSE 100 firm, Diageo is one of only five companies globally to offer equal lengths of 26 weeks paid parental leave for both the primary and secondary carers, for all their employees globally, according to equal workplace rights group Equileap.
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"People between the ages of 15 and 45 were most likely to be carers and caring for someone with Ebola is a big risk factor in contracting the virus," said Sebastian Funk, assistant professor at The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).
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"We look for signals of pain - teeth grinding, distress - and we just take it on a day-by-day basis," said Amanda Gordon, who leads the team of carers, adding that some of the marsupials' health problems can be hard to spot.
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HomeTouch, which is backed by venture capital firm Passion Capital and the Nominate Trust, which invests in digital companies that tackle social problems, enables users to find carers by filtering for skills such as dementia expertise, driving ability or an interest in gardening.
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José Manuel Ramírez, the president of the Association of Social Services Directors and Managers, called Robles' statements "unfortunate" and defended the carers, adding that "workers are putting themselves on the line, without resources, without healthcare support, without protective gear," El País reported.
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Taiwan is also making an exception for foreign migrant workers, many from Southeast Asia who are a vital part of its economy, employed in factories and as home carers, though they too have to spend 14 days in home quarantine on arrival.
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Hildebrandt has short videos of Sudan in his final weeks of life that the rhino's carers in Ol Pejeta conservancy sent him so that he could follow his decline – he gradually stopped eating and walking, whereupon the decision was made to put him down.
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Legalising assisted suicide and/or euthanasia is particularly dangerous because any law allowing either or both will place pressure on vulnerable people to end their lives out of fear of being a burden upon relatives, carers or a state that is short of resources.
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Seth Sternberg, a former Google employee, got so frustrated with this that he launched Honor, a tech-enabled care company through which carers can be booked round the clock, via an app, on a pay-as-you-go basis for whatever time is required.
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Age UK suggests that improving transport links, arranging more age-friendly events at cultural establishments and encouraging older people to get involved in the arts (perhaps at the suggestion of doctors and carers, or through advertisements in local shops) could help close those gaps.
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David Mitchell, an English novelist, and his wife, Keiko Yoshida, translated the text for their autistic son's carers and helped get the book published in over 30 languages, making Mr Higashida probably the most widely read Japanese author after the master-novelist, Haruki Murakami.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Canola the manatee, hand-raised by her carers since she was abandoned by her mother at birth, celebrated her third birthday at Singapore's River Safari on Wednesday with a 2-metre (6.6-ft) high "cake" made of cabbages, carrots and sweet potato leaves.
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Fiona Bloomer, an abortion policy researcher at Ulster University, said that women who cannot travel for abortions have not been given specific consideration, and that it was not clear whether the funding for travel covers partners and carers who may wish to accompany them.
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Earlier this week, the family of Benson and carers of other children who attended the school, filed a lawsuit in the Eastern District Court of California against the school and employees — including Keller, Meyers, and Wohlwend — for the use of restraints against their kids.
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But he shows further frustration with the lack of social care resources for patients away from his hospital, such as the provision of home carers or equipment to keep them mobile, or changes to make their homes more accessible or to help them access day centers.
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And while she has trusty nanny Maria Turrion Borallo to help her with Prince George, 5, Princess Charlotte, 3, and 9-month-old Prince Louis, she expressed her solidarity and empathy with other parents and carers during a visit to the charity Family Action on Tuesday.
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Cliff Morrison - one of the driving forces behind the treatment center where the staff ignored ideas of clinical detachment and had physical contact with patients - said fear about the epidemic and suspicion about how it spread was one of the hurdles carers had to deal with.
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Delaney also thanked staff members at the the National Health Service (NHS), which is a public health system in the UK. "The NHS nurses and doctors and the home carers and charity workers who helped our family survive Henry's illness will be my heroes until the day I die," he wrote.
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With that said, just like any online marketplace has the potential to do so, by cutting out (or at least replacing) the traditional care agency middle-person, HomeTouch claims its carers earn up to 75 per cent above industry average, whilst still offering good value for money to care seekers.
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Other interested parties involved include "The People's Challenge", featuring an Englishman of Bangladeshi origin, an Irishman, two Scotsmen resident in France, a Welshman and a Gibraltarian, whose wife is Spanish; another group of British expatriates; and British children of EU nationals and non-EU carers of British children or the disabled.
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Other interested parties involved in the case include "The People's Challenge", featuring an Englishman of Bangladeshi origin, an Irishman, two Scotsmen resident in France, a Welshman and a Gibraltarian, whose wife is Spanish; another group of British expatriates; and British children of EU nationals and non-EU carers of British children or the disabled.
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"This is my tenth year as WellChild's patron and of course I'm honored to be here at another awards ceremony celebrating the powerful work of this organization; each year, I have the privilege of meeting the children you see before you and spending time with their families and carers," the royal said in a moving speech.
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When carers at care homes make notes using pen and paper, if something happens to a person being cared for, it can take weeks or even months for that issue to be picked up, because the agency will send one of its staff to drive round to these people's homes, pick up the notes, and review them.
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And while there are plenty of symptom-checker type AIs already out there, Cera's positioning in the social care space sets it apart from other platforms, argues co-founder Ben Maruthappu, given it's not aiming for the chatbot to be used directly by its clients (who may not be capable of using a smartphone app, for example), but rather to act as decision support for their carers.
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"Until Ocrevus, people with primary progressive MS — who often have to rely on a cane or wheelchair, give up work or have carers look after them — have not had an approved treatment to slow the progression of their disease," Gavin Giovannoni, a neurology professor at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry who has worked with Roche on studying the drug, said in Roche's statement.
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In the U.K., a few companies are trying to address this issue: Traditional incumbents like Bluebird Care and Home Instead, which are traditional home care agencies, which don't scale; "Introductory agencies" like Supercarers and Elder, which do not train their carers directly with the associated problems; and so-called tech-enabled new players like Cera, which have limits to tech deployment as it is.
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Bipartisan legislation pending in Congress called the CARERS Act, co-sponsored by Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ), Rand Paul (R-KY), and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), would also reclassify marijuana from a Schedule I controlled substance to Schedule II and allow greater access to medical marijuana — a change that would begin to bridge the gap between federal and state law as the federal government acknowledges certain medicinal uses.
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"Informal caregiving is common, and the need for carers is expected to grow due to population aging and cuts to social care services in various countries," said lead study author Lawrence Sacco of the Institute of Gerontology at King's College London in the UK. Caregivers often face conflicting schedules and feel a sense of obligation, leaving some with little or no choice about when and how to help loved ones, he noted.
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Funding of up to £25,000 per company will be made available to innovators with solutions that could be deployed at scale in the next few weeks, and could include: • Providing remote social care – for example by locating and matching qualified carers to those in need and managing and delivering care in care homes • Optimisation of the care and volunteer sector – for example by developing tools to recruit, train and coordinate local volunteers into clinical and non-clinical workers.
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J.), Lisa MurkowskiLisa Ann MurkowskiThe Hill's Morning Report - Progressives, centrists clash in lively Democratic debate Senate braces for brawl over Trump's spy chief Congress kicks bipartisan energy innovation into higher gear MORE (R-Alaska), Al FrankenAlan (Al) Stuart FrankenNative American advocates question 2020 Democrats' commitment Reid says he wishes Franken would run for Senate again Al Franken urges Trump to give new speech after shootings: 'Try to make it sound like you're sincere, even if you're not' MORE (D-Minn.), Mike LeeMichael (Mike) Shumway LeeMcConnell, allies lean into Twitter, media 'war' Conservatives buck Trump over worries of 'socialist' drug pricing Criminal justice reform should extend to student financial aid MORE (R-Utah) and Paul introduced — known as the The Compassionate Access, Research Expansion and Respect States (CARERS) Act — would amend federal law to allow states to set their own medical marijuana policies.
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