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Listening to music, expressing your creative side and seizing opportunities are the secrets to a happy life, according to a Sovereign Lodge resident who has just celebrated her 103rd birthday.
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But providers ask for patience from relatives
CARE providers today welcomed plans to reintroduce unlimited visiting to care settings – but appealed for patience when it begins.
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Burns Night was marked in style at a specialist dementia care home in Wellington, with a special visit from John Campbell and his bagpipes that had residents tapping their toes and singing along.
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Over 5,000 vulnerable people have now enrolled into a world-class study for the chance to receive life-saving antivirals, the government has announced today
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More than a third of care home residents and a quarter of care home staff in England showed evidence of infection with SARS-CoV-2 during the first two waves of the pandemic
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The resident of a Newcastle care home has celebrated her 102nd birthday in style surrounded by family and friends.
Betty Hall has lived at Kenton Hall Care Home, in Kenton Lane, since September 2020.
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Ashcombe House care home in Worting road Basingstoke was transformed into Graceland to celebrate a belated Birthday for what would have been Elvis Presley’s 86th birthday on 8 January.
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The UK healthcare property market showed resilience against the impacts of the pandemic, with operators reporting recovering occupancy levels and stronger than expected margins
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CARE providers have joined calls for the Government to delay the imposition of its ‘no jab, no job’ policy for their staff as the workforce shortage worsens.
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Saint Cecilia’s takes over Oakland nursing home
North Yorkshire care group Saint Cecilia’s has stepped in to save a Whitby nursing home from the brink of closure.
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Nursing staff in Scotland are feeling under enormous pressure with 6 out of 10 either considering or actively planning on leaving their job, new figures from RCN Scotland reveal.
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In December 2021 scientists from South Korea used a technology called transcranial ultrasound stimulation to excite specific areas of mice brain. They found mice with features of Alzheimer’s
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A lack of certainty around councils’ public health funding this year risks exacerbating the growing crisis of demand for support services – including those for drug
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Residents at a Dorset care home have had a blooming good time with a day of all-out ‘flower power’.
They and staff at Colten Care’s Outstanding-rated Amberwood House in Ferndown put their imaginations
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Researchers at the University of Chester are urging nurses and health and social care workers to take part in a survey looking at the impact of the COVID-19 on the sector.
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