North Walsham Care Home Resident Celebrates Centenary Year
A resident at The Manor House care home in North Walsham, Norfolk, has marked her 100th birthday with a special celebration at the home. Irene Vincent has been living
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Fears Over Opening Up Homes As Virus Looms
Better testing needs to be in place first
Care providers are being urged to slow down plans to open up care and nursing homes amidst fears that a second wave of coronavirus is coming.
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Norfolk Nursing Home Team Sets Ambitious Target To Walk Ten Million Steps For Dementia
The team at Overbury House nursing home in Wroxham are taking on a mammoth challenge to raise funds for the Alzheimer’s Society. The national charity
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Centenarian Celebrations For 104-Year-Old Rushden Woman
One of Northamptonshire’s oldest women has celebrated her 104th birthday at a Rushden care home.
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Nominate Your Top Tunes
Does your care home have its own favourite songs to listen to? You know, the ones that always get everyone smiling, tapping, singing or even dancing?
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Lockdown Isolation Causes Shocking Levels Of Decline For People With Dementia
An Alzheimer’s Society investigation reveals the shocking side effect of lockdown on the symptoms of people with dementia. Involving almost 2,000 respondents affected by dementia
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London Pulse Netball Club Teams Up With Anchor Hanover To Provide Netball Coaching Sessions For Care Home Residents
London’s Only Vitality Netball Superleague Team, has teamed up with Anchor Hanover, England’s largest not-for-profit provider of care and housing for older people to provide netball coaching sessions for care home residents.
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UK Care Home Industry Short Of Beds
– COVID-19 impacts occupancy but long-term drivers remain –
– Buckinghamshire named as top location for care home development –
Gracewell Of Camberley Make Scrapbook Of Lockdown Memories
The team at Gracewell of Camberley organised a scrapbook making session for residents. This scrapbook was designed to showcase all the positive memories they have had at the care home over the UK national lockdown period.
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90-Minute COVID-19 tests to be Provided to Care Homes
A new test that can detect COVID-19 and flu, and deliver test results within 90 minutes, is to be used in care homes from next week.
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The Show Must Go on at Didsbury Care Village
An outdoor music initiative has hit the right note at Didsbury care village, Belong Morris Feinmann, with residents delighting in a live garden
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Resident At Nottingham Care Home Reunited With Childhood Room After Almost A Decade
A resident at Oakleigh Lodge care home in Nottingham was left astonished after being reunited with his childhood bedroom after almost a decade.
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Extra £22.7 Million Covid Cash Is “Temporary Sticking Plaster”
Care home owners in Wales have described the extra £22.7 million in emergency funding announced by the Welsh Government as a “temporary sticking plaster”.
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NACC Training & Development Forum 2020 Will Proceed As A Live Event
The National Association of Care Catering (NACC) is excited to confirm that the NACC Training & Development Forum 2020, including the NACC Awards 2020, will return to the East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham, on 7-9 October as a live event.
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Research To Help Elderly Manage Medicines Safely Could Help Cut Hospital Admissions
New £156,000 two-year study led by University of Bradford academic
Helping frail elderly people manage multiple medicines safely is the focus of a new research project led by Dr Beth Fylan, Senior Lecturer in Patient
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