How new treatments can redefine social care

Balancing safety and independence For many years, the question of how best to care for adults with Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS) has divided opinion. Families and clinicians have often favoured specialist residential care, believing it offers the most reliable path to stability, safety, and good health. Public sector commissioners, with the understandable, and very real, pressure…

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Designing homes for people with Prader-Willi Syndrome

Creating the right living environment for anybody with Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS) can, literally, be life-changing. Evidence shows that calming home environments in which individuals with PWS are able to live a structured and proactive life lead to materially enhanced health outcomes and life expectancy. PWS is a complex genetic condition that affects appetite regulation, behaviour,…

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Life begins at 40

In politics everything must be ‘transformed’ because no-one votes for modest improvements. But what if promises turn out to be fantasies?

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