Independent social care providers have pivotal role to play, asserts disabled people’s charity. National disabled people’s charity Revitalise – which provides essential respite breaks for…
Read more...Local councils and other non-protected government departments have been ordered to draw up savings plans worth as much as 40% of their budgets ahead of…
Read more...The King’s Fund’s latest quarterly monitoring report has found that cuts in local authority social care budgets are adversely affecting health services. This is according…
Read more...Eating a Mediterranean-like diet may be associated with losing fewer brain cells caused by aging, according to a study published today (Wednesday 21 October 2015)…
Read more...The Dementia Discovery Fund, a groundbreaking new initiative designed to speed up the discovery and development of new treatments for dementia, has launched after securing…
Read more...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…
Read more...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...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...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...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...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...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...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...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...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…
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