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What is equity release?
The concept of home equity release involves converting a portion of your home’s value into cash, while still allowing you to live there. Usually, this is in the form of a reverse mortgage. When you sell the home or die, the full loan plus interest has to be repaid. Currently,...
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Are health hubs replacing GP surgeries?
Our community health services were quite fragmented in the past, with GP services scattered around the community. In order to create a more integrated service, meet increasing demand, manage resources well and to utilise new innovation and technology then things needed to be done differently. Over recent years many health...
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I’m a carer – do I really need a break?
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Coromandel Lifestyle Village - Retirement Village
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Please help give the miracle of sight. Faith’s eyes are blinded by cloudy cataracts. Once a bright and active child who loved singing and playing with friends, she can now no longer attend school. “Mama, I want to go to school,” she often pleads. 6-year-old Faith lives in rural Uganda...