International Friendship Day: Older People Connect Across The World
Every year on the first Sunday of August, people from around the world come together to celebrate International Friendship Day. The Abbeyfield Society, the charity
Read more...Every year on the first Sunday of August, people from around the world come together to celebrate International Friendship Day. The Abbeyfield Society, the charity
Read more...The Old Parsonage, a Brendoncare care home in Otterbourne, hosted a very special ceremony to honour one of its residents for her work before and
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Read more...Two thirds of people aged over 65 said they consider the internet and computers to be the most revolutionary inventions of their lifetime. The internet
Read more...Safeguarding in care homes, adoption in looked after children and young people, and support for carers are among social care topics being considered for new
Read more...Eight new projects are set to study the impact of early life experiences on lifelong health, with over £3 million of funding awarded to researchers
Read more...Residents at two Sanctuary Care homes were joined by special VIP guests when they hosted the ultimate fine dining experience, as part of a national
Read more...Researchers at pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly say its new drug, solanezumab, has been shown to slow the progression of the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease by
Read more...Unpaid carers to people with terminal cancer provide health and social care worth £219million each year. This accounts for one third of the cost of
Read more...Cambridgeshire-based charity, Alzheimer’s Research UK, has received a boost of $5,000 (equivalent to £3,200) from the Million Dollar Round Table Foundation (MDRT) in America. This
Read more...NHS England, the Local Government Association (LGA), and the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) have published a new draft national framework designed
Read more...Serious falls are more than twice as likely in older men who take medicines with anti-cholinergic properties – according to new research from the University
Read more...If the money from corporation tax cuts and uncollected taxes on property incomes ending up in tax havens went into social care the country could
Read more...Commenting on the pressure that a national Living Wage may place on home care providers, as per the warnings from the UKHCA, Jodie Sinclair employment
Read more...The head of the Royal College of Nursing is right to criticise the number of nurses being recruited from within the European Union instead of
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