Care professionals describe dementia training day as emotional and eye-opening To coincide with Dementia Action Week (20-26 May 2019), leading care supplies company Spearhead Healthcare…
Read more...A charity is appealing for more volunteers to help provide its award-winning care to military veterans at a care home in Solihull. The Royal Star…
Read more...Veterans from The Royal Alfred Seafarers’ Society are taking part in a unique D-Day event in Portsmouth on 7 June to commemorate the 75th anniversary…
Read more...Three out of five politicians say people in their constituencies are suffering because of cuts to social care, with three quarters saying there is a…
Read more...MHA Stones Place care home resident, Kathleen Brown, has made a special birthday trip back to Lincolnshire country home, South Ormsby Hall, nearly 80 years…
Read more...New analysis from the Health Foundation shows that there will be a social care funding gap of £4.4bn in England in 2023/24 to meet rising…
Read more...As well as growing staff numbers, the NHS needs to rapidly become a much better place to work says the new Interim NHS People Plan,…
Read more...DEMENTIA friends gathered at Teesside care home for training to support those with the condition. Dementia champion and crime prevention officer at Cleveland Police, Peter…
Read more...Chelsea Pensioner Colin Thackery has become the oldest winner of Britain’s Got Talent. As well as winning a slot performing in front of the Queen…
Read more...Sue Evans, chief executive of Social care Wales has welcomed the announcement that the Foundational Economy Challenge Fund has doubled and is urging those working in…
Read more...New research from the University of Cambridge has suggested that virtual reality (VR) can identify early Alzheimer’s disease more accurately than ‘gold standard’ cognitive tests…
Read more...A staff member at a Dorset care home spent hours trawling through genealogy websites to help grant a 97-year-old’s woman’s lifelong wish to trace her…
Read more...Residents of Kingsgate care home in East Kilbride have swapped footstools for milking stools, with a special visit from Müller Milk and Ingredients’ interactive dairy…
Read more...Sean Duggan, chief executive of the Mental Health Network, which is part of the NHS Confederation, said: “We cannot provide the level of care that…
Read more...Researchers at the University of Edinburgh have received a £160,000 funding boost from Alzheimer’s Research UK, the UK’s leading dementia research charity. The announcement comes…
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