Staff at Puddington Care Homes Working Towards Quality Mark
Staff at two care homes in Puddington, Cheshire are working towards an accolade for their specialist care. Over thirty carers and the senior leadership team…
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Hugh Myddelton House Celebrates National Dog Day
“Staff and residents at Barchester’s Hugh Myddelton House care home in Southgate got up close and personal with some furry friends when they celebrated all…
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Age UK Responds to Ofgem’s Price Cap Increase
Age UK has responded to Ofgem’s announcement that price cap will rise by 80% to £3,549 from 1st October 2022 Caroline Abrahams, Charity Director at…
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Most Vulnerable Unprotected in Energy Price Rises
The cost of living crisis continues to be the most pressing issue facing thousands of people across the country. Government policies announced to date to…
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Care Home Residents Prove You’re Never too Old to Learn
AN EDINBURGH care home is encouraging lifelong learning for its residents as it partners with the Open University to form an in-house college. Cramond Residence…
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Topping Out Ceremony for New Dementia Specialist Care Home HMT Littlehampton
An official ceremony has marked the ‘topping out’ of HMT Littlehampton, a brand-new dementia specialist care home in Climping, near the seaside town of Littlehampton,…
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Global Healthy Ageing and Prevention Index to be Launched to Track Progress and Drive Action on Healthy Ageing
Over the coming year, the International Longevity Centre UK (ILC) will create the Healthy Ageing and Prevention Index, which will track, for the first time,…
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Care Home Takes Residents on Trip Down Memory Lane with Carnival Games
A Middlesbrough based care home set up carnival games for residents for them to reminisce about their younger days. Activity coordinators at MHA Montpellier Manor…
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One in Four Across England Provide Support to Alzheimer’s or Dementia Sufferers
A new survey which polled 4,027 across England has found that one in four people are supporting someone living with Alzheimer’s disease or another form…
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Regular Asymptomatic Testing Paused in Additional Settings
Regular asymptomatic testing for Covid in all remaining settings in England will be paused from 31 August, as Covid cases continue to fall. Free testing…
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The NACC Friday Morning Kitchen Is Back!
As part of this must-attend training forum for care caterers and based on The National Association of Care Catering (NACC)’s version of ‘Ready Steady Cook’…
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Combatting Loneliness In The Elderly With Digital Connection
By Grzegorz Wrzosek, Country Manager for Promedica24 (https://promedica24.co.uk/) Loneliness is now thought to present as great a risk to our health as obesity or smoking,…
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Why Care Providers Shouldn’t Shy Away From Communication Technology During Difficult Staffing Times
By Tim Morris, Managing Director of communications provider, Cymphony (www.cymphony.co.uk) A stretched workforce only has time to concentrate on the basics of its function. For…
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The Experience Of Uncertainty In Advanced Multimorbidity
Similar uncertainties about illness, care, and the future are experienced by older people with multiple advanced chronic illnesses (multimorbidity) and by their carers and healthcare…
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Are England’s Care Homes Aware Of The Impending Food Waste Legislation?
By Huw Crampton, sales manager at organic waste solutions firm Tidy Planet (https://tidyplanet.co.uk/) The way care homes in England deal with their food waste is…
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