Care Homes

While non-essential visits are on hold, residents of a state-of-the-art care village in Wigan are able to feel closer to friends and family thanks to specially made cushions featuring photographs of loved ones.

Care England has expressed immense frustration over the delay in Visitor Guidance.

Professor Martin Green OBE, Chief Executive of Care England, says:

A resident at Hope House care home based in Clayton-le-Moors, has celebrated her 101st birthday.

Time for reform not blame, say providers

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has sparked outrage among the care sector and the wider public and has been accused of trying to shift the blame for coronavirus deaths onto care homes.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson accused some care homes of not properly following the procedures during the coronavirus crisis during his visit to Goole this afternoon. He’s recorded to have stated:

Responding to the latest ONS figures on coronavirus deaths in care homes, which show almost 20,000 care home residents have died with coronavirus, Cllr Ian Hudspeth, Chairman of the Local Government Association’s Community Wellbeing Board, said:

Surrey-based maritime care home, The Royal Alfred Seafarers’ Society, is marking the UK’s tenth annual Seafarers Awareness Week (6-12 July) with tales from the high seas from its seafaring residents and tenants.

From ice cream vans to wellbeing webinars, Encore Care Homes delivered a thoughtful week of events in celebration of World Wellbeing Week (22-26 June), a global awareness campaign about the importance of health and wellbeing.

Veterans in each of the charity’s Homes in Solihull, Surbiton and High Wycombe took part in the event, which was the culmination of Armed Forces Week (22-27 June).

The charity is to allow one on one garden visitors between friends, family and residents

Sunrise of Hale Barns care home has opened a bar within ‘Reminiscence’, its Memory Care Neighbourhood. This is a dedicated neighbourhood for residents living with dementia.

The incidence of deaths in care homes related to COVID-19 has fallen for an eighth consecutive week.

The latest weekly analysis from the Office of National Statistics reveals that care home deaths involving coronavirus decreased by 12.9% in England and Wales to 249.

The walls of Avonbridge care home, Hamilton, have been decorated with a brightly coloured mural of a high street for residents and staff to enjoy.