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New research commissioned by social venture Social-Ability to mark World Alzheimer’s Month has shone a light on current understanding around Alzheimer’s Disease and dementia revealing alarming
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At Friends of the Elderly’s Bernard Sunley care home in Woking, Surrey, the care team has been celebrating Moyra Webber’s milestone 101st Birthday with cake, gifts, cards and a birthday treat performance
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A new study has investigated measures used to control infection in care homes for older people.
The study involved analysing data and previous research from 2007 to 2020, before the COVID-19 pandemic
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By Jennifer Johnston, associate at law firm BLM (www.blmlaw.com)
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There was much excitement at Cabrini House in Orpington, when the residents found out that they would have the opportunity to spend the night camping in the garden. The residents
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Adding that the crisis in social services was becoming more and more acute. “Any resilience that vendors had, before Covid, has been eroded because of the fiasco around PPE and everything
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The Macmillan World’s Biggest Coffee Morning became a truly ‘glittering’ occasion at 21 care homes across the south.
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Staff, residents and friends of Barchester’s Southgate Beaumont Care Community in Enfield were joined by representatives from the Tottenham Hotspur Foundation for a walk in the home’s beautiful
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Beatrice Shutes was treated like royalty for the day when she celebrated her 100th birthday.
Staff at Mundy House care home, in Basildon, pulled out all the stops to make sure Beatrice reaching her centenary was marked in a majestic fashion.
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GPs in the Surrey Heartlands CCG have started delivering Covid-19 booster jabs to people in eligible groups in the Surrey area as the biggest and most successful vaccination programme in the history
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Care providers are calling on the Government to step in and tackle the crisis in social care like it is doing over petrol and food shortages.
The Independent Care Group (ICG) says the Government
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By Ian Pace, solicitor at national law firm Weightmans, advising on all areas of employment and discrimination law (www.weightmans.com)
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By Laura Wood, QCS, Clinical, Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Specialist (www.qcs.co.uk)
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Staff and residents at Hugh Myddelton House care home in Southgate held a charity coffee morning and bake sale on 24th of September to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support.
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Famous faces from TV joined a sea of fundraisers this weekend at two of Alzheimer’s Society’s landmark Memory Walk events that took place on Sunday 26 September
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