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Suicide risk, hospital admissions for people living with mental health conditions, anxiety, depression, acute stress have all been linked with extreme heat in the UK and beyond. [63] [64] [65] Heat itself can cause direct physiological changes, such as in blood flow or serotonin levels, and cognitive changes as a result of struggling to sleep ...
Living Direct, previously known as Richlund Ventures, was founded in 1999 by Rick Lundbom to market hard-to-find appliances for modern, small-space living. The company started in his home with no outside investors and Lundbom as the sole employee. [1] He began by launching Living Direct's first retail website, CompactAppliance.com.
The National Centre for Independent Living (NCIL) was a non-profit staffed organisation controlled by and run for disabled people active in social care issues to campaign for and support the independent living of disabled people in the community and using personal assistants, as opposed to living in institutions such as care homes and hospitals ...
He turned down venture capital and instead sold the company to Ferguson plc, then called Wolseley UK, for $35 million. [4] Woseley bought the Build.com domain name from David Berman and rebranded the company as Build.com in April 2010. [4] In October 2015, Build.com / Ferguson Enterprises acquired Living Direct. [5]
Disability in the United Kingdom covers a wide range of conditions and experiences, deeply impacting the lives of millions of people. Defined by the Equality Act 2010 as a physical or mental impairment with a substantial and long-term adverse effect on a person's ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities, it encompasses various aspects of life, including demographics, legislation ...
An advance healthcare directive, also known as living will, personal directive, advance directive, medical directive or advance decision, is a legal document in which a person specifies what actions should be taken for their health if they are no longer able to make decisions for themselves because of illness or incapacity.
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The modern environmental direct action movement in the United Kingdom started in 1991 with the formation of the first UK "Earth First!" group [citation needed] for a protest at Dungeness nuclear power station. Within two years, there were fifty Earth First groups and activists linked with other parties in the road protest movement.