Skills Network Adds Weight To Care Campaign
A national skills organisation has thrown its weight behind a campaign led by a Lancashire care home network to highlight the growing skills shortages facing…
Read more...A national skills organisation has thrown its weight behind a campaign led by a Lancashire care home network to highlight the growing skills shortages facing…
Read more...A COMMUNITY charity has been holding regular arts and crafts sessions at a Rotherham care home to boost elderly residents’ creativity. RotherFed has been visiting…
Read more...From today (April 9), people in Wales are able to keep up to £40,000 of their money before they need to self-fund the full cost…
Read more...A FORMER factory worker has celebrated her 100th birthday with a party alongside friends and family at her care home in Chester-le-Street. Mabel Fenwick was…
Read more...NICE is urging councils and health bodies to make sure that people with learning disabilities can access well-designed services and staff with the right skills…
Read more...A Vancouver-based research team led by Dr Patrick McGeer, has published a paper suggesting that anti-inflammatory drugs could prevent Alzheimer’s disease. The study suggests that,…
Read more...Skills for Care is urging people to join in Care Home Open Day, as care homes across the country invite their communities to join in…
Read more...Residents at more than 40 Care UK homes across the country celebrated World Poetry Day on Wednesday 21 March. The fun-filled events organised by Care…
Read more...A new report by Age UK, “Why call it care when no-one cares?“, summarises the results of a series of listening events the Charity has…
Read more...DUCKLINGS have hatched at a Northumberland care home just in time for Easter. The Oaks Care Home, in Blyth, had been incubating the baby birds…
Read more...Action on Hearing Loss has teamed up with Alzheimer’s Research UK to co-fund research that will increase our understanding of the common biological mechanisms underlying…
Read more...Sherford Manor residents swapped tea and cakes for gears and brakes when they attended a stock car racing event at Smeatharpe Stadium. The Taunton home,…
Read more...The 12 finalists for the NACC Care Chef of the Year 2018 culinary competition have been confirmed. Following a series of regional heats, the National…
Read more...Use of the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) in integrated urgent care settings is to be rolled out nationally following a successful pilot. It will mean…
Read more...A chance friendship struck between a Steyning care home resident and a local tailor has resulted in an unexpected job offer. Val Lynch, 85, was…
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