One-Off Investment In Social Care Not Enough, Ministers Warned
ONE of the UK’s largest providers of housing and care services has warned that the extreme pressure being placed on hospitals will increase without long-term…
Read more...ONE of the UK’s largest providers of housing and care services has warned that the extreme pressure being placed on hospitals will increase without long-term…
Read more...A family-owned care provider with 19 homes for elderly people raised nearly £25,000 for good causes in 2014. The figure means South Coast operator Colten…
Read more...A major new service, Skills Platform, is launched today that will create the UK’s first dedicated online marketplace for training and personal development within the…
Read more...Queens Meadow Care Home Searches For Volunteer To Teach Local Lady To Read and Write A care home in Hartlepool is appealing for a tutor…
Read more...Community Integrated Care has signed up to a national code of conduct that challenges providers to improve service quality and delivery in learning disability services….
Read more...Alzheimer’s Research UK has launched a national volunteer recruitment campaign and is asking individuals in Cornwall to join the team. The UK’s leading dementia research…
Read more...Dehydration can cause liver, joint and muscle damage “Care home residents five times more likely to be left thirsty,” The Independent reports after an analysis…
Read more...Colleagues from Anchor’s Dementia team are presenting a masterclass on our development of person centred dementia care services, at the Social Care Conference in London…
Read more...Rob Wilson, MP for Reading East, discovered how a partnership between Alzheimer’s Research UK and the University of Reading is leading the fight against dementia…
Read more...The National Care Forum (NCF) Sue Ryder and Voluntary Organisations Disability Group (VODG) are holding six free events in January and February 2015 The aims…
Read more...The country’s ageing population is seen to be one of the top three challenges facing UK society over the next 20 years, falling just behind…
Read more...A new Age UK survey* reveals that one in four (2.9 million) [1] people aged 65 and over feel they have no one to go…
Read more...New research highlights a broad range of symptoms other than memory loss as early signs of dementia. The work is published in the Journal of…
Read more...Danshell, a provider of learning disability and mental health services in the UK, has reacted to the changing needs of service users and commissioners and…
Read more...The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) has today (Thursday 15 January) upheld its recommendation against screening everyone aged 65 and over for dementia. The Committee…
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