Openreach Volunteer Team at Avalon Nursing Home
Giving a spring face-lift to the garden of the dementia home in Bridgwater where his father has been living for the past year was the…
Read more...Giving a spring face-lift to the garden of the dementia home in Bridgwater where his father has been living for the past year was the…
Read more...A wish came true for Amberley Hall care home resident Gwen recently – when she got to see horses being shoed, the same way she…
Read more...New analysis by Age UK has found around 4.7million people aged 65 and over in the UK are unable to complete all eight of the…
Read more...Visitors turned out in large numbers for a first look inside a new £13 million care home in Biddenham, Bedford. Bentley Grange, a 60-bed care home…
Read more...By Mitesh Dhanak, Chair of the Organising Committee of Championing Social Care and Founder of Precious Homes (www.precious-homes.co.uk) News about understaffing in the care sector…
Read more...By Kiri Holland, BDO LLP (www.bdo.co.uk/en-gb/industries/health-and-social-care) It is now well over two years since the COVID-19 pandemic began to dominate the health and care landscape….
Read more...By: Gerald Oppenheim, Chief Executive of the Fundraising Regulator (www.fundraisingpreference.org.uk) As we mark Carers Week, we are reminded that care workers perform one of the…
Read more...By Jo Crossland, Head of Dementia Care, Avery Healthcare (www.averyhealthcare.co.uk) Mood-altering or behaviour modifying medication to treat ‘behaviour’ in dementia care has long been a…
Read more...By Suman Saha, Co-founder and Medical Director at Doctify (https://www.doctify.com/uk) Word of mouth in social care is now taking place online. As a digital-first society,…
Read more...By Hourglass’ CEO Richard Robinson. Sadly, the abuse of older people is not a new issue, but one that has now reached a critical threshold…
Read more...Evolve Care Group’s (www.evolvecaregroup.com) writer Beth Tingle, covers the life histories surrounding the organisations many care and nursing homes and the extraordinary people that live…
Read more...By Denis Kinane, Immunologist and Founding Scientist at Cignpost Diagnostics (www.cignpostdiagnostics.com) Last week, it was reported that the UK Health Security Agency, the public health…
Read more...By Sadie Besley, senior operations director, Randstad UK (www.randstad.co.uk) Care homes are suffering epic staff shortages. Staff burnout is sky high; some care teams have…
Read more...By Dan Sullivan, National Compliance Coordinator at NTH Solutions (www.nthsolutions.co.uk) The last two years have seen a new level of scrutiny on cleanliness and safety…
Read more...By Julie Butcher- Head of Marketing at Webbox (www.webbox.co.uk) Dogs are wonderful animals. They’re incredibly loyal, loving, and make great companions too. And these fantastic…
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