New Short Film Set To Hit All The Right Notes For North East Dementia Charity
A North East-based charity has been selected as the national partner for a new short film drama to help raise awareness of the effects of
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New Strategic Partners Join £9.5 Million Dementia Drug Discovery Collaboration
The Dementia Consortium welcomes Johnson & Johnson Innovation, Takeda and Evotec to join the unique £9.5 million charity-industry collaboration. This second phase of the Dementia
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Green Paper “Fast Becoming Crossrail Of Health And Social Care”, Says Older People’s Charity
Independent Age, the older people’s charity, has today expressed new concerns about the government’s commitment to the social care green paper, following responses to Diana
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Spending More Time In School May Not Slow Memory Loss
Researchers in the US have found that the length of time people spend in education is not associated to their rate of memory decline in
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Care Group Supports New Recruitment Campaign
Care providers today put their weight behind a national adult social care workforce recruitment campaign. The Independent Care Group is backing the Department of Health
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Residents At Local Nursing Home Enjoy Indian Dance Performance
Staff and residents at Brook House Nursing Home in Wembley recently enjoyed an Indian dance performance by local dancers visiting from the Sai Temple. Invited
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Resident Joins Job Interview Panel At Stowmarket Care Home
Tom Ryan, who lives at Hillcroft House residential home in Stowmarket, Suffolk, has been helping the manager undertake a number of job interviews this week,
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Southampton City Council Proposes New Way Forward On Residential Care
Southampton City Council has undertaken extensive work over the last few months to look at how best the council can meet the changing social care
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New Report “A Red Flag For The Future Of Social Care”, As Providers Warn Cuts Could Soon Be Felt By Vulnerable Adults
The financial pressures crippling the social care sector could start to directly impact the vulnerable adults it supports, according to a newly published report, which
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Families Face Care Funding Postcode Lottery
People and their families continue to face a social care postcode lottery with people in some areas four times more likely to be fully-funded, a
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Children From Ashdene Children’s Home Cycle To Raise Money For Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital
Young people from a care home in Lancashire have cycled 43 miles to raise over £1,160 in support of Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital. Using an
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Music Programme Brings Young And Old People Together
Young and old are being brought together by music and song as part of an exciting new programme involving residents from Cornwall Care’s Mountford care
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Fortune Cookies Helping Elderly With Dementia
FORTUNE cookies are having a therapeutic effect on those living with dementia in the North East. Residents at Pelton Grange Care Home, in Pelton, near
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Social Care Sector Unites In Letter To Ministers Criticising Careless Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill
Over 100 social care sector organisations have come together to unite and sign an open letter to the Minister of State for Social Care, Caroline
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Half Of UK Adults Can’t Identify Single Key Risk Factor For Dementia
Findings from one of the most comprehensive surveys of UK-wide public perceptions of dementia and research have been revealed today (6 February) by Alzheimer’s Research
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