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Covid warning from pandemic legend Jonathan Van Tam – ‘defence can’t go to sleep’

Pandemic legend Jonathan Van Tam has warned Britain’s “defence can’t go to sleep” against Covid. The former deputy…
#NewsBeep #News #Health #CareHomes #Flu #GB #Heatwave #immunesystem #NHS #Nursinghomes #Surveillance #UK #UnitedKingdom
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/768541/

https://www.europesays.com/uk/1200603/ Covid warning from pandemic legend Jonathan Van Tam – ‘defence can’t go to sleep’ #CareHomes #Flu #Health #Heatwave #ImmuneSystem #NHS #NursingHomes #Surveillance #UK #UnitedKingdom

Bosnia Charges Seven Over Deadly Fire at Tuzla Elderly People’s Care Home https://www.byteseu.com/2357793/ #Bosnia #BosniaAndHerzegovina #BosniaHerzegovina #CareHomes #Herzegovina #PublicSafety #PublicServices

I'm listening to Today in Focus by the #Economist | The young and healthy Dutchman who moved into a care home.
Available on Podbean, and other platforms.
#TeunToebes #carehomes

podbean.com/ea/dir-4hnjg-3...

This new book explains why your elderly parents’ retirement home, the nursery where you drop your children, or the company that pipes water into your kitchen is taken over by an increasingly intricate and deregulated industry.

If a private equity fund is "buying something using a lot a debt, [then] all of that debt is loaded onto the company that the private equity fund has acquired."
"Private equity has moved into care homes, housing, water, nurseries and other essential services."
"We have the power for it to be done otherwise."

Hettie O’Brien: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAJKiVQZaks via @oscarjiminy

#mortality #publicHealth #housing #publicServices #retirement #careHomes #hospital #expansion #development #LBO #privateFinance #finance #privateFinance #privateEquity #capitalism #publicPolicy #assets #England #Wales #Scotland #privateSector #UK #Britain #Blackstone #property #realEstate #buildToRent #Macquarie #childCare #careIndustry #taxBreaks #pensions #extraction

Rebel #octogenarian Austrian #nuns win reprieve

The tumultuous story of #runaway sisters Rita, 82, Regina, 86, and Bernadette, 88, defying the #church hierarchy made headlines across the globe.

The trio ran away from the care home the #Catholic Church sent them to "against their will" and broke back into their abandoned #convent at #Goldenstein #Castle in #Elsbethen near the city of #Salzburg in September, with the help of supporters.

https://www.rte.ie/news/newslens/2025/1128/1546348-austrian-nuns/

#religion #retirement #CareHomes

Police Bust Bitcoin Mining Operation in Hong Kong Care Homes, HK$9K Power Theft - TLDR:

HK police say two men used care homes’ power and internet to run eight hidden Bitc... - https://blockonomi.com/police-bust-bitcoin-mining-operation-in-hong-kong-care-homes-hk9k-power-theft/ #electricitytheft #bitcoinmining #hongkongcrime #regulation #carehomes #mining #crypto #crime

Nearly all care homes closed for endangering children and vulnerable adults were profit-driven, study finds | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/nearly-all-care-homes-closed-endangering-children-and-vulnerable-adults-were-profit

#CareHomes
#ChildrensHomes
#ForProfit
#Safeguarding
#Children
#Disabled
#Elderly
#MentallyIll
#Vulnerable
#CareQualityCommission
#Ofsted
#KeepOurNHSPublic
#DeptOfHealthAndSocialCare

📕 Chuffed to pick up hardcopy of new @springernature Scabies book. Includes my chapter on managing institutional #scabies outbreaks from care homes to refugee camps: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-26070-4_29. Abstract + more info➡️

Middleton et al. Scabies Management in Institutions

Abstract
Scabies is a particular problem in semi-closed institutions such as residential settings for elderly people, children and those with learning disabilities; refugee camps and other settings for displaced persons; prisons; schools; hospitals and hostels. What many of these diverse places have in common is a range of transmission drivers which enable scabies to reach very high prevalence including: high densities of potential hosts, social behaviours involving prolonged contact, bed and clothes sharing, manual handling, reduced access to laundry facilities and immunocompromise. We describe the epidemiology of institutional scabies outbreaks across settings, and based primarily on recent and longstanding evidence from adult health care, we draw out general strategic priorities for case management and outbreak control. The tools and information necessary to carry out an epidemiological assessment of an institutional scabies outbreak are provided, along with guidance on control measures. A summary checklist of the key steps to take in responding to an institutional outbreak concludes the chapter.

Thank you to @nihrresearch for funding support.

This is part of the first comprehensive book on scabies, written by experts from across the world. You can order the full 31 chapter ebook and hardback for your uni/clinical library here: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-26070-4

#NTDs #Scabies #Refugeehealth #carehomes #outbreakcontrol #epidemiology #publichealth #medicalacarology #acarology #prisonhealth #parisitology #globalhealth #parasites

@naomilawsonjacobs #Older people in #Retirement & #CareHomes can also be treated same #Institutionalising way which gives more power to #Institution, less decision-making to #person. Wouldn't it feel more #Equal #Heartfull #engaging & #Familial to actively participate together when possible as a good #Home works? #Sitting with #brain, #body #empowerment unchallenged/passive cannot be #Healthy? #Compliancy for institutional #efficiency sake shouldn't be goal: #Equality #Democracy in #CareWork