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The very first ‘hearing aid’ was a hand cupped behind an ear, and you’ll still see people today do just that if they’re straining to hear something. This gesture serves to create a larger ‘receiver’ to capture the sound, and perhaps let someone see you’re struggling to hear them!
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Do you love your home? Have you spent years making it the perfect place for you and your loved ones, and do you want to remain living there for as long as you possibly can?
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Research by UK national charity Independent Age has revealed that the average cost of an older person’s stay in a residential care home is a staggering £82,000.
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It’s that time of year again when ‘norovirus’ can strike, leaving you feeling pretty wretched for a few days and needing to stay close to the bathroom.
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Worrying new figures from Public Health England (PHE) show there were an estimated 61,000 cases of infections resistant to commonly-used antibiotics in England during 2018.
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The City and South London Railway, the world’s first deep-level underground railway, opened 129 years ago today, on November 4th, 1890.
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Nearly 30,000 people across the country with Type 1 diabetes have received life-changing wearable monitors as part of the NHS Long Term Plan.
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If you take a daily dose of medicine to control high blood pressure, new research suggests it’s better to take it at bedtime.
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Halloween is here again, but not everyone wants uninvited callers in scary costumes knocking on their door after dark. If you’d rather not have ‘Trick or Treaters’ calling at your door (or at the door of a loved one), you can print this poster and fix it to the door, or display it in an adjacent window.
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We’re well into Autumn, the clocks have gone back and the dark nights will keep drawing in all the way to December 21st, the shortest day.
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Posted by Acorn Stairlifts UK on Saturday, 4 August 2018
★★★ Fearless Laura’s freefall fundraiser ★★★30-year-old #AcornStairlifts employee Laura Belcher is set to make a skydive from 15,000 feet to raise funds for Sue Ryder Manorlands Hospice onThursday May 17th at Skydive Hibaldstow, a parachuting and skydiving centre in North Lincolnshire. Looking forward to the challenge, she said: “I think it’s the thrill of it – I like to push myself to the limits.” ★★★To make a donation to her skydive challenge, visit her online fundraising page at : https://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/LauraBelcher2 ★★★ ★★★ Read more on our blog: https://www.acornstairlifts.co.uk/blog/post/1700/Lifestyle/Fearless-Laura%E2%80%99s-freefall-fundraiser ★★★
Posted by Acorn Stairlifts UK on Thursday, 10 May 2018