Residential Care Savings Limit Increases In Wales
From today (April 9), people in Wales are able to keep up to £40,000 of their money before they need to self-fund the full cost…
Read more...From today (April 9), people in Wales are able to keep up to £40,000 of their money before they need to self-fund the full cost…
Read more...Doctors have warned of a ‘round-the-year crisis’ in the NHS after projections pointed towards a summer of strain – with pressures on services similar to…
Read more...Easter brought a clutch of happy memories for the residents of a Christchurch care home, in the shape of 10, fluffy chicks. Colten Care’s Avon…
Read more...Innovating for Ageing – a joint initiative between Just Group and ILC-UK – today launched an invitation for submissions from organisations and individuals who understand…
Read more...HUNDREDS of pounds have been raised for the Stroke Association by a charitable Peterlee care home. Staff, relatives and friends of Bannatyne Lodge Care Home…
Read more...Riversway Nursing Home will be ‘Making Pals’ in the community after teaming up with a charity. The home is working with the Alive organisation on…
Read more...A commitment to the STOMP (STopping Over-Medication of People with a learning disability, autism or both) campaign has been steadily building in social care. One year on since VODG…
Read more...Residents at luxury care home Coppice Lodge in Arnold geared up for a visit from a local motorbike group on Good Friday. Arnold Bikers visited…
Read more...This year’s Care Home Open Day will be held on 21st April 2018 and is all about Linking Communities. Care Home Open Day will coincide…
Read more...RESIDENTS of a Wishaw care home have been paid a special visit by Shetland ponies, Flicker and Applejack as part of an animal therapy session…
Read more...Infection control specialist, Cairn Care, has launched a fact sheet on CPE (carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae) to help care homes to control its transmission. Although Enterobacteriaceae are…
Read more...EASTER was celebrated at care homes across Teesside – with bonnet making masterclasses and fayres. The Gables Care Home, in Middlesbrough, and Ingleby Care Home,…
Read more...A FORMER factory worker has celebrated her 100th birthday with a party alongside friends and family at her care home in Chester-le-Street. Mabel Fenwick was…
Read more...NICE is urging councils and health bodies to make sure that people with learning disabilities can access well-designed services and staff with the right skills…
Read more...A Vancouver-based research team led by Dr Patrick McGeer, has published a paper suggesting that anti-inflammatory drugs could prevent Alzheimer’s disease. The study suggests that,…
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