New Kettering care complex could create 90 jobs

New Kettering care complex could create 90 jobs A national care provider is planning to build a nursing home and dementia care site in Kettering.

Avery Healthcare has submitted plans to create the care complex on the old Satra House site in Rockingham Road. Northamptonshire Telegraph

Using telecare for older people in adult social care

Using telecare for older people in adult social care A report from the Utopia project led by King’s College London describes how electronic assistive technology and telecare are used by local authorities in England to support older people.

Promising approaches to living well with dementia

Promising approaches to living well with dementia This report outlines a number of scalable and cost-effective interventions that can help to support people with dementia. It includes case studies of services and projects that support wellbeing and living well for people with dementia. Age UK

The ageing process and health

The ageing process and health This briefing summarises the evidence on the biological basis of ageing and outlines the ways in which public health policy can support better health in later life. Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology

Majority of over-65s would like more sex, survey finds

Majority of over-65s would like more sex, survey finds Older people are often assumed to want amiable companionship in later life rather than passion-fuelled romance.

But a survey of 2,002 older Britons suggests 52% of over-65s feel they do not have enough sex, and nearly a third are happy to have sex on a first date.

It also found one in 10 over-75s have had multiple sexual partners since turning 65.

The charity Independent Age said its survey showed age was "no barrier to having a sex life". BBC News

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• Over half of people aged 65 and over say they aren’t getting enough sex, new survey shows Independent Age

'Punished for a crime I hadn't committed'

'Punished for a crime I hadn't committed' Joanna is one of at least 9,000 non-smokers in the UK diagnosed with lung cancer every year.

The British Journal of Cancer predicts that lung cancer cases in the UK will double from 65,000 in 2010 to 137,000 in 2040 and that women will be worst affected. BBC News

Valentine's Day leads to spike in new pregnancies, NHS data shows

Valentine's Day leads to spike in new pregnancies, NHS data shows Valentine’s Day appears to have a significant impact on amorous activity as official NHS figures reveal it’s associated with a spike in women becoming pregnant.

In the week of the 14 February 2015 health service data shows a five per cent bump in officially recorded conceptions, 16,263 compared to the weekly average of 15,427.

But even data from the week after Valentine’s Day, where 16,344 new pregnancies are recorded, the period still lags behind Christmas’s impact on seasonal baby-making. The Independent

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• Valentine's Day romance ends ... with a baby boom, NHS statistics show The Daily Telegraph

Vaginal mesh: New material which avoids serious injuries and side-effects discovered by scientists

Vaginal mesh: New material which avoids serious injuries and side-effects discovered by scientists New material is more flexible and could even promote wound healing, but campaigners warn other implants left women with serious internal injuries.

Scientists claim to have created a flexible vaginal mesh implant which will not cause serious injuries of the kind caused by existing rigid models which left women with life-changing injuries.

The unfolding scandal over the use of plastic vaginal mesh implants, which had their approval for use in the NHS withdrawn by watchdogs in December, has led to international legal actionand the death of at least one woman.

Now scientists from the University of Sheffield have developed a new form of implant which they said avoids the harmful properties of earlier models while still being able to be surgically useful. The Independent

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• Campaigners slam material that could replace vaginal mesh The Daily Mail

'I missed serving my country': the military veterans joining the NHS

'I missed serving my country': the military veterans joining the NHS Step into Health works with 50 trusts to match the skills of former military personnel to careers in the health service

Richard Lloyd had dedicated 28 years to the armed forces when he moved with his family to Cumbria to run a guesthouse. But after four years he found something was missing. “I missed the cut and thrust of being in a big team. I missed that camaraderie, and doing service for the country,” he says.

Lloyd had spent his working life stationed in Iraq and assisting with peacekeeping operations in Bosnia in the early 2000s. He never thought he would find a second career in the NHS. But the 52-year-old veteran is one of a growing number of former military personnel carving out lives in the health service. Continue reading... The Guardian