Residents Raise A Cup As Colten Care Smashes Its Dementia Friends Target
COLTEN Care is celebrating after making 80 per cent of its entire 1800-strong care home staff Dementia Friends. The family-owned company, which owns 20 care…
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Liverpool Cyclist Raises £3000 For Dementia Care
John McClements, from Maghull in Merseyside, has raised over £3000 for local care home, Amberleigh House and the Alzheimer’s Society, by cycling 140 miles from…
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Ingleby Care Home Raises Hundreds In Dementia Awareness Week Fundraising
A STOCKTON care home has raised hundreds of pounds to help elderly residents living with dementia. Ingleby Care Home organised a 5km sponsored walk around…
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Conservatives To Include Cap On Social Care Costs
Prime Minister Theresa May has unveiled a cap on social care costs as she moved to end the growing backlash over the Conservative policy on…
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Belong Residents Make A Splash At Dementia-Friendly Swimming Sessions
Residents of specialist care village, Belong Crewe, have been making waves at dementia-friendly swimming sessions, which have been designed to enhance participants’ mobility, appetite and…
Read more...Care Worker Raises Over £700 For Local Hospice
A care home support worker from Worcester has raised over £700 for a local hospice. Karl Worthington, who works at Shaw Red Hill care home,…
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Key Facts On Current State Of Social Care
The Health Foundation has published three new briefings focusing on the current state of social care, outling the scale of the financial challenge faced by…
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Wigan Care Home Residents Enjoy Day On The Farm
Residents at Hourigan House, the Minster Care-run residential home in Wigan, were delighted to spend a day getting up close and personal with a range…
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Lost Loved Ones Celebrated At Colten Care Homes
Families and friends have gathered at care homes across the South to share memories of loved ones they have lost in the past year. All…
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Luxury Care Home in Birstall Funded by Clydesdale & Yorkshire Banks
A brand-new, purpose-built care home has been developed in Birstall on the Northern outskirts of Leicester after receiving a multi-million pound funding package from Clydesdale…
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Public Health Doctors Condemn Cuts
Public health doctors have overwhelmingly condemned severe funding cuts to public health services. Doctors at the BMA public health doctors conference in London agreed that…
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TOWIE’s Georgia Kousoulou Helps Launch Independent Age Fundraising Challenge
Georgia Kousoulou from The Only Way Is Essex helped launch the brand new charity fundraising challenge for Independent Age, the older people’s charity, on Saturday…
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Compass Group UK & Ireland’s Healthcare Team Raise Over £150,000 For Alzheimer’s Society
Compass Group UK & Ireland’s Healthcare team, part of the largest food and support services firm in the UK, has marked Dementia Awareness Week by…
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Private Payers Sustain Care Home Market-But May Not Avert Capacity Crisis
The value of UK care home market for older people reached £15.7 billion in 2016 (about 1% of GDP). The market continues to grow, at…
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‘Oldest Old’ Abandoned By Care System As 800,000 Struggle With Essential Tasks
Age UK is calling on political parties to put social care at the heart of their election manifestos as it reveals that a third of…
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