Family joins forces with Alzheimer’s Society to launch Leeds Memory Walk
Three generations of a Leeds family came together at Roundhay Park to encourage people sign up to Alzheimer’s Society’s Leeds Memory Walk which takes place
Read more...Three generations of a Leeds family came together at Roundhay Park to encourage people sign up to Alzheimer’s Society’s Leeds Memory Walk which takes place
Read more...There has been an increase in the percentage of patients receiving ‘Harm Free Care’2 according to data released by the Health and Social Care Information
Read more...Future generations of pensioners face a bleak future unless Government addresses the long term challenges of working age poverty, argues the International Longevity Centre –
Read more...Central Government will commit to buying locally-sourced food through a new food and drink buying standard, which will aim to cut waste, according to newly-appointed
Read more...While fees paid last year saw a small uplift (though still failing to match inflation) which provided some respite to operators, this year’s findings signal
Read more...Research from older people’s charity, Independent Age, has been used in Parliament to highlight the issue of unfair care home top-up fees. Thousands of families
Read more...A Droitwich man has helped raise more than £50,000 for a group of disabled residents at a Birmingham care home over the last ten years,
Read more...Stocks Hall Nursing & Care home in Skelmersdale held a special party to celebrate Prince George’s first birthday. People living at the home enjoyed a fabulous
Read more...Javelin superstar and Commonwealth Games medal hopeful Goldie Sayers will draw Alzheimer’s Research UK’s Annual Raffle in host city Glasgow next month. The popular athlete
Read more...Care Minister Norman Lamb has said he is ‘delighted’ with CMG’s latest initiative, which ensures the learning disabilities services provider continues to put the people
Read more...The Independent Age ‘End the Secret Subsidy’ campaign revealed that around three-quarters of councils are failing to protect families from paying unnecessary ‘top-up’ fees for
Read more...The Treasury’s unprecedented pension shake-up has been rebuffed as “well-intentioned but riddled with unintended adverse consequences” by the boss of one of the world’s largest
Read more...Care home Activities Coordinator, Lauren Hyder, has won the Margaret Butterworth Award 2014 for excellence in dementia care, it was announced at last week’s award
Read more...The Registered Nursing Home Association (RNHA) has called on Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt for reassurance that his hospital-style ‘special measures’ regime for failing care homes,
Read more...The Office of National Statistics (ONS) has released data highlighting the hospice sector’s role in providing the UK’s best care for people at the end
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