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Care home providers Sunrise Senior Living UK and Gracewell Healthcare recently organised a very exciting competition for residents to enter. Residents across Sunrise communities and
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Westhill Walking to Health group have received Dementia Friendly Walking status for their Wednesday morning one-hour Health Walk. This award from walking charity Paths for
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Ubisoft, creator and publisher of the video game, Just Dance®, has donated £60,000 to Alzheimer’s Research UK – doubling the initial fundraising target for their
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Ashley Gardens Care Centre in Maidstone has proudly opened a range of new facilities for residents, specifically designed to support people living with dementia. The
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A new report published by the International Longevity Centre UK (ILC) today finds that the flu cost better off countries £30bn in lost working days
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Responding to the Queen’s Speech announced today, Cllr James Jamieson, Chairman of the Local Government Association, said: “The Local Government Association has long called for
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With Boris Johnson’s Conservative Government leading the polls with a comfortable majority, ending the uncertainty on Brexit that has dominated the news for many months,
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In recent years mindfulness has become a hot topic, becoming increasingly popular as mental health awareness grows. The reported benefits of practicing mindfulness range from
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South coast care home operator Colten Care has seen its latest cohort of care staff pass an in-house training course to take up new clinical
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Care home provider brighterkind has won Employee Engagement of the Year award at Personnel Today Awards. The award recognises brighterkind’s efforts in employee engagement and implementing positive change
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A group of care home residents are helping to test a revolutionary new high tech instrument that helps disabled people make music. The device has
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Staff members of Sweyne Court Care Home, in Rayleigh, are celebrating after winning a prestigious award at the Caring UK Awards last week. The annual
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Care England has criticised a GPs vote to remove home visits from their core work. The recent proposal from the Kent GP Local Medical Committee
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Tina Chander is a partner and head of the Employment team at leading Midlands law firm, Wright Hassall Over the last decade, the issue of
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Changes to the PIR or Provider Information Return only came into force in August, but they herald an important sea-change in the inspection process. In
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