Green-Fingered Hit Squad Helps Dorset Disability Charity Improve Children’s Garden
A ‘hit squad’ of volunteer gardeners and decorators has helped to spruce up the garden of a respite home for disabled children in Poole. The…
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Dementia Experts Identify Gaps Holding Back Potential Treatments
The work, funded by Alzheimer’s Research UK, calls for a fresh focus on how research is conducted, including new approaches to clinical trials and incentives…
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Care Team Members Wow Judges at Hallmark’s Got Talent
Leading care provider, Hallmark Care Homes, recently hosted two regional talent show competitions, where team members wowed the judges with breath-taking singing, dancing, instrument playing…
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CQC Figures Reveal Increase in Serious Care Home Injuries
There has been an alarming increase in the number of serious injuries reported by care homes in England according to data from the Care Quality…
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Competition Highlights Importance Of Reminiscence Therapy For People Living With Dementia
Care homes from across the UK are being invited to take part in the #GladtoCare competition designed to capture residents’ favourite memories and is being…
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Government Must Recognise Urgency Of Putting Right A Struggling Social Care System
Responding to Carers UK’s State of Caring report, Niall Dickson, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, said: “This research shows the human consequences that the…
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£3 Million Boost To Develop Social Care Managers
Adult social care’s 21,200 registered managers and their deputies are in line to benefit from £3 million through the Workforce Development Fund (WDF) that’s specifically…
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‘Living In A Care Home Shouldn’t Be A Barrier To Being Heard’
A group of Sheffield nursing home residents are helping shape the city’s health services. Broomgrove – which is sited just off Ecclesall Road – has…
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Art Volunteers Get Elderly Painting Their Windows
TEESSIDE care home residents have been painting their windows and creating collages with community art studio Artrium. Volunteers and staff from the Hartlepool-based studio visited…
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Report Calls For Longer Visits To Increase Standards In Home Care Sector
A new report published by a leading health and social care technology specialist has highlighted the need for commissioners of homecare services to increase average…
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Prostate Cancer Treatment Linked To Dementia Risk
New research has highlighted a possible link between a prostate cancer treatment called androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) and the risk of dementia. Androgens are a…
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Hampshire Nursing Homes Have the Best Maintenance Team in the Country
Maintenance staff whose initiatives have transformed care for residents at specialist care homes in Hampshire have been crowned ‘best in the UK’. Andy Foster and…
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Alpacas Feel at Home at Shropshire Nursing Home
Alpacas Alfonzo and Roulette, known as Alfie and Roo, delighted residents at Shropshire nursing home, Stretton Hall, in All Stretton. The two brothers and their…
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New Tools Launched Support Senior Nurses Working to Integrate Health and Social Care in Scotland
Nurses on integration authority (IA) boards in Scotland have access to a new set of tools with the publication of a competency framework. IA nurse…
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Care Home Staff’s Marathon Hike for Cancer Charity
A MIGHTY mixed terrain 26-mile hike across the Peak District will challenge care home staff as they aim to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support….
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