The Latest Care Home News For The Social Care Industry

Holidays are vital, no matter how busy you are. They help reduce stress, improve health and ensure happiness. Both patients and carers need their time off to do the things they enjoy and recharge their batteries. However, in some cases, ...

Nurseplus’ Managing Director has committed to the Great Wall of China Trek, marking a one-year partnership with disability charity Leonard Cheshire. Pamela Bruce is training hard for the 6,000km, five-day hike, which will make its way across mountains, through valleys ...

A DEMENTIA friendly singer entertained Thornaby care home residents as part of an event to raise awareness of the condition. Mandale House Care Home marked Dementia Awareness Week with a singalong to the residents’ favourite classics. Dementia Friends’ Trish McLean ...

Train enthusiasts at a Hampshire care home are so thrilled with their nearby heritage railway they’ve raised nearly £1,000 to help preserve it for future generations. The appreciative senior passengers of the Mid Hants Railway, known affectionately as the Watercress ...

According to Dementia UK 311,730 people with dementia are living in care homes, 57.9% in residential care homes and 42.1% in nursing homes. Dementia causes a variety of issues for those with the condition, including memory loss, ‘fuzzy’ thoughts, disorientation, ...

Fragrance Delivery Technologies Ltd (FDT), one of the leading players in air-freshening industry, with presence in 50 countries, has pioneered in odour eliminating and neutralising products. The Oxy-gen Powered range is designed to counter the unpleasant tough odours that can ...

“Care homes must keep a record of all controlled drugs obtained and supplied in a bound book or register with numbered pages. It is also good practice to keep separate records of inpatients using their own controlled drugs, which have ...

Artistic Residents at a Benfleet care home proved that ‘it’s always tea time’ when they created an Alice in Wonderland themed graffiti board. The artwork was produced by staff and Residents at HC-One’s Godden Lodge as a way to remember ...

A 92-YEAR-OLD volunteer has retired after 14 years’ service at a Teesside care home. Marie Toombs started volunteering at The Gables Care Home, in Middlesbrough, after her aunt, a former resident, passed away. Impressed with the end of life care ...

Award-winning actor Vicky McClure has today announced her commitment to help build a dementia-friendly UK after being appointed as an Alzheimer’s Society Ambassador. With one person developing dementia every three minutes in the UK, it is a move that formally ...