Care Home Residents Celebrate World Poetry Day
Rhyming couplets were the order of the day at Austen House care home in Lower Earley, Reading where residents were keen to get involved in…
Read more...Rhyming couplets were the order of the day at Austen House care home in Lower Earley, Reading where residents were keen to get involved in…
Read more...A rainbow-themed party was the perfect way to celebrate a year of fundraising by care home residents and staff in aid of a Dorset children’s…
Read more...Dedicated staff working in the care sector in Lincolnshire were celebrated at the annual Lincolnshire Care Awards (Thursday 21st March). The awards, which were organised…
Read more...The National Care Forum (NCF) has published a report resulting from the Social Care International Workforce Summit held as part of the Global Ageing Conference last year….
Read more...Families and loved ones of those living with dementia will have the chance to get expert advice as part of a series of workshops being…
Read more...Avice, a resident at Barchester’s Hickathrift House Care Home, has been knitting teddy bears for children at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital for over a decade….
Read more...New findings from the British Social Attitudes survey, published by the Nuffield Trust and The King’s Fund, show that public satisfaction with social care services…
Read more...Teams from care homes across Dorset and their dogs took part in a charity obstacle course in Poole in aid of a good cause. Residents,…
Read more...Accidental falls are one of the biggest threats to the health and wellbeing of older people. Every year there are around 250,000 emergency hospital admissions…
Read more...Residents from three Dorset and Hampshire care homes enjoyed a postwar Britain-themed production performed by a theatre school in Bournemouth. Care home residents from Castle…
Read more...Slough supercentenarian Richard Brown celebrated his 107th birthday this month – but preferred a quiet cuppa to a party! Richard, who lives at Windmill Care…
Read more...Scott Mitchell, husband of the late Dame Barbara Windsor and Alzheimer’s Research UK Ambassador, has been appointed People’s Champion of the Dame Barbara Windsor Dementia…
Read more...The covid backlog fell for the fourth month in a row in January despite the longest period of industrial action in NHS history, new figures…
Read more...A Hampshire care home made a resident’s heartfelt wish come true with a surprise opportunity to play the harp again for the first time in…
Read more...Leaders across the health and social care sector agree that a ‘full-scale’ cultural shift at a policy and organisational level is ‘urgently needed’ in order…
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