The Senior Management Team of local social care provider, Optalis, have taken the time to show appreciation of their social care teams, following their selfless work during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read more...A former nurse who has dedicated the last 30 years to caring for the elderly in Crawley has celebrated her retirement with a party at Deerswood Lodge care home, where she has worked for the last 14 years.
Read more...Research has revealed that dementia rates have fallen by 13% over the last 13 years.
A global team of researchers led by Prof Albert Hofman,
Read more...A resident at The Manor House care home in North Walsham, Norfolk, has marked her 100th birthday with a special celebration at the home. Irene Vincent has been living
Read more...Better testing needs to be in place first
Care providers are being urged to slow down plans to open up care and nursing homes amidst fears that a second wave of coronavirus is coming.
Read more...The team at Overbury House nursing home in Wroxham are taking on a mammoth challenge to raise funds for the Alzheimer’s Society. The national charity…
Read more...One of Northamptonshire’s oldest women has celebrated her 104th birthday at a Rushden care home.
Read more...Does your care home have its own favourite songs to listen to? You know, the ones that always get everyone smiling, tapping, singing or even dancing?
Read more...An Alzheimer’s Society investigation reveals the shocking side effect of lockdown on the symptoms of people with dementia. Involving almost 2,000 respondents affected by dementia
Read more...London’s Only Vitality Netball Superleague Team, has teamed up with Anchor Hanover, England’s largest not-for-profit provider of care and housing for older people to provide netball coaching sessions for care home residents.
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The team at Gracewell of Camberley organised a scrapbook making session for residents. This scrapbook was designed to showcase all the positive memories they have had at the care home over the UK national lockdown period.
Read more...A new test that can detect COVID-19 and flu, and deliver test results within 90 minutes, is to be used in care homes from next week.
Read more...An outdoor music initiative has hit the right note at Didsbury care village, Belong Morris Feinmann, with residents delighting in a live garden
Read more...A resident at Oakleigh Lodge care home in Nottingham was left astonished after being reunited with his childhood bedroom after almost a decade.
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