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…
Read more...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…
Read more...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…
Read more...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…
Read more...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…
Read more...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…
Read more...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,…
Read more...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…
Read more...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…
Read more...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…
Read more...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…
Read more...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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L R Chief Executive Tracey Stakes and Deputy Chief Executive Tracy Paine with the Residential Care Award at the LaingBuisson 2019 award ceremony
Not-for-profit care village operator, Belong, has won the Best Residential Care Accolade at the prestigious LaingBuisson Awards 2019, which recognise the industry’s finest examples of…
Read more...People that live to be 100 or even older – supercentenarians – may have a specific quirk of their immune systems to thank. That’s according…
Read more...St Cuthbert’s Hospice, Durham, has been honoured with a national award at the prestigious Dementia Care Awards at a high-profile Gala Night held earlier this…
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