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Ageing Well Collection
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ageing Well Collection

...mental performance and increase feelings of tiredness. Functions usually affected by dehydration include memory, attention, concentration and reaction time. These free resources look at the importance of hydration while ageing. Do you want to know if you’re taking in enough water for day-to-day wellbeing and your health in later life? Select the link below to get your...
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Reflections on resilience for LGBTQ+ asylum seekers
Society, Politics & Law

Reflections on resilience for LGBTQ+ asylum seekers

...mental health nurse, saw a need for LGBTQ+ asylum seekers to have support. Many asylum seekers were coming to Croydon as the Home Office base is there. Ray set up a group called Rainbows Across Borders, welcoming anyone who needed help and support in relation to persecution for their sexuality and/or gender identity. People could sometimes be taken to detention centres at...
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Tolstoy and the search for the meaning of life
History & The Arts

Tolstoy and the search for the meaning of life

...mentally unsound, – on the contrary, I was in full command of my mental and physical powers, such as I had rarely met with in people of my age: physically I could work in a field, mowing, without falling behind a peasant; mentally I could work from eight to ten hours in succession, without experiencing any consequences from the strain. And while in such condition I...
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Codi ymwybyddiaeth a chymorth i ddynion
Health, Sports & Psychology

Codi ymwybyddiaeth a chymorth i ddynion

...Men’s Sheds: promoting male health, wellbeing and social inclusion in an international context’, Health Promot Int., 29(3), tt. 483–93. Sefydliad Iechyd Meddwl (2022) Men and Mental Health. Ar gael yn: https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/explore-mental-health/a-z-topics/men-and-mental-health Sands (2021) Sands United. Ar gael yn: https://www.sands.org.uk/sands-united...
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Business ethics
History & The Arts

Business ethics

...mental state of organisations to be plainly metaphorical. The literal talk to replace it is to be talk of mental states of individual members of an organisation. Nigel: But surely that idea isn’t so absurd. How can a group of individuals have some kind of composite mental state like that? The basic unit of action is an individual human being. So there’s a sense in...
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Verbal fluency
Health, Sports & Psychology

Verbal fluency

...mental processing as well. Doing a task like coming up with many different types of fruit names involves using the association area of the brain, the prefrontal cortex. Studies using brain scanning have shown that this part of the brain is especially active during such tests. Being reasonably fluent with words is important for communication. However, being able to produce...
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Candles and campfires: creativity and the menopause transition
Health, Sports & Psychology

Candles and campfires: creativity and the menopause transition

...mental health services, it shocks me how little I was ever taught about this process, experienced by everyone with female sex organs. Now I am making up for lost time educating and agitating. While positive for some, this transition can also be accompanied by grief at the loss of years of life that might have been better. Arts, talking, nature, sound, and low light –...
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Social Care: Past and Present
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social Care: Past and Present

...mental disabilities. The album also explores how care and welfare in the community has changed over the years. This material was part of The Open University course K202 Care, welfare and community... Social Care: Past and Present A short introduction to this album. Changing communities in north Sheffield Introducing the two adjacent but distinct communities of Darnall and...
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