Robots: The Future Of Healthcare?
The future of care for older adults may lie in the hands of robots, not people. By 2016 there will be 16 million robots deployed…
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Exhibition With A Difference Brings Older People Together
Over 70 customers from nearly 20 sheltered accommodation schemes, extra care schemes and who receive care in their own home celebrated creating their own art…
Read more...Professor To Examine Dementia’s Coming Of Age In Public Lecture
Claire Surr is set to host her professorial inaugural lecture as Professor of Dementia Studies at Leeds Beckett University, where she will highlight the changing…
Read more...Youth Initiative Takes Elderly Residents Back To 1940s Britain
A YOUTH initiative from Hartlepool took elderly care home residents back to 1940s Britain with a reminiscence event. The volunteers arrived in 1940s military uniform,…
Read more...Another Big Jump In Numbers Of Health And Social Care Apprenticeships
There has been a 20% leap in the numbers of Health and Social Care Apprenticeships to 84,300 up from 70,080 the year before. The provisional…
Read more...ADASS President Calls For Greater Co-Production Of Front Line Staff
A determination to ensure front line staff get better co-production and recognition for their dedicated work and praise for the CQC, marked ADASS President Ray…
Read more...Four Award Finalists For Braintree Care Homes
The New Deanery and St Mary’s Court residential care homes in Braintree have been named as finalists at both The National Care Awards 2015 and…
Read more...NICE Guidelines On Delaying And Preventing Dementia In Later Life
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has today (Tuesday 20 October) launched recommendations on approaches in mid-life to delay or prevent the…
Read more...Councils Can Double Savings If Government Invests In Prevention
For every £1 spent on programmes to keep people healthy, almost double could be saved for the public purse within five years, LGA analysis for…
Read more...Jeremy Hunt Calls For UK To Hire “Nannies For Grannies”
The Health Secretary has called for Britain to follow Italy, where it is common for elderly parents to move in with their children rather than…
Read more...Daniel Zeichner MP Visits Stem Cell Research Centre In Cambridge
Cambridge MP Daniel Zeichner discovered how the Alzheimer’s Research UK Stem Cell Research Centre is playing a key role in the fight against dementia when…
Read more...Manchester Football Legends Support Dementia Event
Football legends Lou Macari, former star of Manchester United, Celtic and Scotland, and Alex Williams MBE, former Manchester City goalkeeper, took part in a special…
Read more...CQC Report Is An Opportunity To Drive Up Standards Of Care
Mary Clarke, CEO, Cognisco, a company that specialises in the mitigation of people risks in organisations, responds to the report from The Care Quality Commission…
Read more...Dignified Care For Elderly And Disabled At Risk Due To Lack Of Funding, Councils Warn
Local government leaders and directors of adult social care have warned that the ability of councils to provide dignified care for people in old age…
Read more...NCF Publishes Series Of Papers On Sustainability In Social Care
This week (12 October) we published a refresher of our publication ‘Committed to Quality’. The paper covers the Care Act vision of transformed services, challenges faced…
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