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None of This is True

By Lisa Jewell

Nursing homes are so-called because they provide nursing care. A home that is not registered to provide nursing care will not provide medical care beyond helping residents take any medication that they have been prescribed.

Nursing homes have a higher number of fully qualified and specially trained nursing staff. Added to this, there will be specialised nursing equipment, such as fully adapted bedrooms and bathrooms, adjustable beds, hoists and ramps.

Nursing homes with dementia care

Nursing staff will have specialist dementia training and the care offered is at a much higher level, for elderly people who require more physical support and who are also living with some form of dementia.

According to a recent national survey by One Poll, the vast majority of older people in the UK – 97% – say they would prefer to stay in their own homes. Thankfully, there are a number of agencies that can provide everything from helping with small chores to live in companion and driver. Here’s an at-a-glance guide:

• Live-in companion

• Drop-in daily help

• Driver

• Housekeeper/cook

• Gardener

• Live-out companion

• Meal deliveries

• Live-in care

• Respite care

• Overnight care

CELEBRATING her 45th birthday at her local pub, podcaster Alix Summer crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair.

Josie is also celebrating her 45th.

A few days later, they bump into each other again, this time outside Alix’s children’s school. Josie says she thinks she would be an interesting subject for Alix’s podcast. She is, she tells Alix, on the cusp of great changes in her life.

Alix agrees to a trial interview and indeed, Josie’s life appears to be strange and complicated. Aix finds her unsettling but can’t quite resist the temptation to keep digging.

Slowly Alix starts to realise that Josie has been hiding some very dark secrets, and before she knows it Josie has cajoled her way into Alix’s life - and into her home.

Soon Alix begins to wonder who is Josie Fair really? And what has she done?

“Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.”

John

Wayne

“To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.” Reba McEntire

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Smartphones and laptops can and do stop working, get tripped over and smashed, or, worse still, get stolen. Here’s how to safely store your shots.

Copy them to the cloud

The cloud is a fancy way of saying ‘other people’s computers’, e.g. Apple, Google or Microsoft. These services can copy your photos automatically from your phone or computer so they’re always up to date. There is a limit on free space however and whilst the costs aren’t massive you will have to pay for extra space.

Build yourself a backup

Alternatively use an external storage device.

A fast SSD (solid state drive) is easy to connect and use to backup not just your photos but your other important fi les too. Our recommendation? Do both! If you have a copy on an external SSD and another in the cloud, you’re prepared for anything.

Samsung T7 Portable SSD 1TB

Samsung drives are little more expensive than some rivals, but they are very reliable. They’re perfectly portable, superspeedy and ultra-reliable.

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