With the help of local schoolchildren, Magnolia Court, Barchester Healthcare’s care home in Hampstead, has named its recently refurbished suite’s Lavender and Daisy keeping the names floral inspired.
Read more...Residents and staff enjoyed a beach-themed afternoon at a care home in Crawley to mark the grand opening of a new wellness room.
Read more...The public is being urged to continue to use the NHS COVID-19 App as changes made from today will result in fewer contacts being advised to self-isolate following a close contact with a positive case.
Read more...A CARER at a care centre set to be closed down by Bury Council has started a petition to fight the decision.
Spurr House, a short-term respite care centre in Unsworth
Read more...Residents at The Chanters were pleased to meet their ‘neigh-bour’ Splodge the horse when he paid a special visit to the Atherton care home.
Read more...The training and development at Banstead-based maritime charity and care home, the Royal Alfred Seafarers’ Society, has been recognised at the postponed 2020 Great British Care Awards which took place on 23 July.
Read more...ELDERLY care home residents were treated to an exclusive music concert thanks to the Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival.
With restrictions easing, Cramond Residence was delighted to welcome Jed Potts
Read more...More than 85 million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine have been administered across the UK, the latest figures show, as the government continues to urge everyone eligible to get their vaccines
Read more...Age UK has published a new report about the appalling impact of the pandemic on millions of older people aged 60 plus in the UK in the early part of this year. This is the second wave of research
Read more...Staff and residents at Southgate Beaumont care home, in Enfield, invited members of the local community to join them for a garden breakfast event last Friday.
Read more...Research presented at the 2021 Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC) in Colorado, shows that more must be done to tackle the barriers to recruitment and retention of participants
Read more...MHA Elmside care home recently hosted a re-enacted wedding ceremony, as the close-knit family of resident Beryl Taylor, 95, decided to ‘take the wedding to their nan’ in the home’s beautiful gardens.
Read more...Professional Care Workers’ Week returns for its second year, this year taking place between September 6–10, aiming to shine a light on the work happening in the social care sector and to explore
Read more...One resident at Sunrise of Hale Barns care home has recently received the green light for the publication of their book.
Read more...A new report calls for a new framework and funding to make assistive technology ‘mainstream’ in adult social care services, including providing the infrastructure to roll this out effectively in rural areas
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