West and Central Africa: Weekly Regional Humanitarian Snapshot (16 - 22 Feb 2021)
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RESURGENCE OF ARMED VIOLENCE PROMPTS NEW DISPLACEMENT
Armed violence continues to uproot thousands in the northern Centre Nord and Sahel regions of Burkina Faso. Violent incidents have been reported over the past three weeks in the communes of Bouroum and Barsalogho in the Centre Nord region, and the communes of Oursi/Tin-Ediar, Bani, Mansila, Deou, Sebba and Gorom-Gorom in the Sahel region. Initial assessments have reported the arrival of some 6,200 internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the village of Silmangué, Centre Nord region, over the past two weeks, as well as some 5,965 IDPs in Mansila, Sahel region. Humanitarian actors are mobilizing rapidly to provide assistance to the new IDPs, including shelter and non-food items, water and sanitation, healthcare and food assistance.
Funding Success to Develop iSupport Program in Australia and Greater China
Co-Director of UNSW Sydney’s Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA), Professor Henry Brodaty, along with a team of national and international researchers, have been the successful recipients of a $400,000 award to strengthen professional collaboration in dementia caregiver education and research in Australia and Greater China.
The project, led by Flinders University, will showcase Australia’s excellence in dementia care and research by developing a Chinese iSupport program. It is funded by the Australian Government’s National Foundation for Australia-China Relations; an initiative established in 2020 to strengthen understanding and engagement between Australia and China.
The Dog Who Wouldn t Be Quiet Review: A Shimmering Vision of Life s Ordinary Strangeness The Dog Who Wouldn t Be Quiet Review: A Shimmering Vision of Life s Ordinary Strangeness
A gentle man loses and finds himself repeatedly in the early middle of his life in Ana Katz s superb, deceptively spacious sixth feature.
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Director: Ana Katz
With: Daniel Katz, Valeria Lois, Julieta Zylberberg, Lide Uranga, Raquel Bank, Carlos Portaluppi, Marcos Montes, Mirella Pascual, Elvira Onetto. (Spanish dialogue)
Running time: Running time: 73 MIN.
Courtesy of Luxbox Films
The enigma, at the beginning, is that the dog makes no noise. Unless you count the tinkling of his bone-shaped name-tag as he snuffles doggishly around the yard. Neighbors come by, politely, to complain about his whimpering, and his owner acknowledges the problem apologetically, but if he’s noisy, it happens offscreen. It’s that way with a lot of the inferred noise in A
Self-Reported Hearing Loss Linked to Increased Risk of Dementia
A six-year study of older Australians in CHeBA’s Sydney Memory and Ageing Study has uncovered an Australian-first association between the impact of hearing loss on cognitive abilities and increased risk for dementia.
In Australia, hearing loss affects 74% of people aged over 70. International studies estimate that people with severe hearing loss are five times more likely to develop dementia. Addressing midlife hearing loss could prevent up to 9% of new cases of dementia – the highest of any potentially modifiable risk factor identified by a commissioned report published in The Lancet in 2017.
A research collaboration between the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA), UNSW Sydney and Macquarie University’s Centre for Ageing, Cognition and Wellbeing has confirmed significant associations between self-reported hearing loss and cognition, as well as increased risk for mild cognitive impairment or dementia.