Care Home Resident Prepares For Macmillan Skydive
Care home resident Stephanie Brown, 52, is refusing to let her wheelchair stop her from doing something amazing for charity. On 7th October, weather permitting, Steph
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Visitors To Care & Dementia Show Offered Insight Into World Of Dementia Through Virtual Experience
Visitors to this year’s Care & Dementia Show (11-12 October, NEC, Birmingham) can experience first-hand just what people with dementia go through on a daily
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Nearly 80,000 Care Staff Could Be At Risk As Brexit Fuels Uncertainty About Status Of EU Workers
Care services for elderly and disabled people could be at risk because nearly 80,000 workers in the sector in England don’t have British citizenship and
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Virtual Reality Helps Scarbrough Court Residents Revisit Their Favourite Places
Scarbrough Court Cramlington, Northumberland, is using virtual technology to help residents recall some of their most cherished memories. RMBI care home Scarbrough Court teamed up
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Pharmacy Minister Announces Delay To Community Pharmacy Reforms
Pharmacy Minister David Mowat announced today in a speech at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s Annual Conference that the Government’s planned implementation of the 6% cut
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Teacher Completes Alzheimer’s Research UK’s Running Down Dementia Challenge For His Mum
English teacher Peter Warr has been inspired to take on Alzheimer’s Research UK’s summer challenge, Running Down Dementia, after seeing his mum deteriorate from the
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Tribute Band Joy At Care Home
Residents, families and the team at The New Deanery and St Mary’s Court care homes, near Braintree, took advantage of great weather and their extensive
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Thank You For The Music, Lymington Care Home Tells Departing Presenter
Care home residents and staff joined volunteers from New Forest Hospital Radio to bid farewell to a popular presenter and leading light of the station.
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Charities Criticise Government’s Continued Failure To Plan For Our Rapidly Ageing Society
Charities call for an urgent focus on the ‘crisis in social care’ and urge an extended remit for the planned auto-enrolment review. A group of
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Foundation Stone Laid For New Care Centre In Thornbury
One of the UK’s largest not-for-profit care home providers – The Orders of St John Care Trust (OSJCT) – has placed the foundation stone for its
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Doomsday Scenario For Care Warns NCA
This week’s Kings Fund /Nuffield Trust report, Social Care for Older People, paints a bleak picture of the future of the sector, highlighting reductions in how much local authorities pay care homes, meaning
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Public Take To ‘Trip Advisor’-Style Feedback Centre To Leave Reviews Of Health And Care Services In Essex
Many of us take to the web to check out a hotel or restaurant in advance. Nowadays star ratings and reviews from the general public
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New and improved Care & Dementia Show – View web version Transform the lives of older people at the newly formatted Care & Dementia Show
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Camexpo 2016 Panel Debate Looks At The Key Challenges Of ‘Caring For An Ageing Population’
Complementary health practitioners are increasingly required to support clients with multiple conditions linked to aging – from brain health and mobility issues to nutritional deficiencies.
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Don’t Fall In To The Middle Class Care Gap Solicitors Warn
Solicitors Barcan+Kirby are warning those aged 55 plus, the so called baby boomer generation, to act now to make sure they can provide for their
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