European researchers have found that socioeconomic hardships during childhood are associated with poorer memory and thinking performance in later life. The findings are published today…
Read more...Care Quality Commission (CQC)’s “Ofsted-style” inspection and rating regime is a significant improvement on the system it replaced, but it could be made more effective,…
Read more...Following the recent publication of the Local Government Association’s (LGA) Green Paper, ‘The lives we want to lead’, a campaigner for the introduction of an…
Read more...MEMORIES of a Chester-le-Street confectionary landmark came flooding back to two care home residents during National Cupcake Week. Brenda Clifford, 80, and Lilian Maxwell, 84,…
Read more...Georgia Dawson, Act Up Senior Care Assistant at Borough Care’s Bamford Close in Cale Green, Stockport, is doing a skydive to raise money for a…
Read more...VODG (Voluntary Organisations Disability Group), a national charity that represents leading not-for-profit organisations who provide services to disabled people across England, has organised its second…
Read more...NHS Digital has announced £1.4m to improve care and support using predictive analytics and digital information sharing between the NHS and social care. NHS Digital…
Read more...Octopus Healthcare is delighted to announce the completion of a new deal to fund the construction of a 64 bedroom care home in Fulford, York….
Read more...Professional chefs at a south coast care home provider have begun receiving added training at one of the UK’s top hotels so they can continue…
Read more...The upcoming Care Sector Fundraising Ball has proved to be popular among care providers and industry suppliers alike with all the tickets for the event…
Read more...CARE homes across the north have been creating tasty treats for a National Cupcake Week competition. Two homes were named joint winners in the Hill…
Read more...Gene Therapy Could Improve Alzheimer’s DiseaseIntroducing healthy genes into missing or damaged cells could help cure degenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s and Huntington’s, according to new…
Read more...Following the release of a report by skills for care entitled ‘The state of the adult social care sector and workforce in England’, Danny Mortimer,…
Read more...South Gloucestershire Council has been asked to apologise to an elderly couple after deciding they deliberately deprived themselves of capital in order to reduce the…
Read more...Alzheimer’s Research UK is calling on the UK government to adopt a bold new action plan to bring about a life-changing dementia treatment and improve…
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