How our residential aged-care system doesn't care about older people's emotional needs
Sep 25, 2018 18:16 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
All humans have fundamental needs. These are physiological (food, drink, clothing, sleep), safety (emotional security, physical safety, health), love and belonging (friendships, community), esteem (respect, dignity) and...
Five psychological reasons why people fall for scams – and how to avoid them
Sep 25, 2018 18:04 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Con artists, fraudsters and their hapless victims are a staple of the news cycle and hardly a week seems to pass without a story about an e-mail lottery scam or a telephone fraud. Many reading these stories perhaps just...
Mindfulness meditation: ten minutes a day improves cognitive function
Sep 25, 2018 18:01 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Practising mindfulness meditation for ten minutes a day improves concentration and the ability to keep information active in ones mind, a function known as working memory. The brain achieves this by becoming more...
How many Americans really misuse opioids? Why scientists still aren't sure
Sep 25, 2018 17:52 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
With rates of prescription opioid use disorder and opioid-involved overdose deaths on the rise, the U.S. opioid crisis appears to be continuing unabated. Data on overdose and death are pretty reliable. But theres still...
A child's chances of being taken into care depend on where they live in the UK
Sep 25, 2018 17:46 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
A child growing up in the UK is much less likely to be doing so in care if they live in Northern Ireland rather than England, Scotland or Wales. Thats the finding of a new study from my colleagues and I working on the...
Insatiable: an unhelpful portrayal of binge-eating disorder
Sep 25, 2018 17:45 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
When eating disorders feature in TV shows or movies, they tend to either receive praise for their portrayals of the illness (Overshadowed) or accusations of glamorising it (To the Bone). Unfortunately, the new Netflix...
Autistic children need the world to acknowledge the significance of the challenges they face
Sep 25, 2018 17:42 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Autistic children are increasingly being suspended or expelled from school, because of behavioural problems official figures show. Some regions in the UK have seen a 100% increase in these types of exclusions since...
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