Excelcare Residents Share their Resolutions for 2024
As we welcome the start of the new year, residents living in Excelcare Homes have been looking ahead and setting resolutions and goals they would…
Read more...As we welcome the start of the new year, residents living in Excelcare Homes have been looking ahead and setting resolutions and goals they would…
Read more...Joanna Killian has been appointed as the new Chief Executive of the Local Government Association (LGA). She will join the LGA in March from her…
Read more...New research has revealed the percentage of over-65s living in care homes is higher in Worthing than anywhere else in England and Wales. For this…
Read more...The UK Covid-19 Inquiry has opened its sixth investigation: the Care Sector across the UK (Module 6). Public hearings are planned for Spring 2025. Module…
Read more...New research from the University of California published in Neurology has shown an association between quality of sleep and changes to cognitive function in midlife…
Read more...Crucial details relating to the Carer’s Leave Act 2023 have been published, after the draft regulations were laid in Parliament on 11 December 2023. This…
Read more...A British Geriatrics Society report makes key recommendations for the effective use of a national minimum dataset to deliver the best possible care in UK…
Read more...Researchers have established a first potential therapeutic target for a type of early-onset dementia. Scientists have identified abnormal aggregates of a protein called TAF15 in…
Read more...As tens of thousands of junior doctors in England begin an unprecedented 6 days of strike action today (January 3). The British Medical Association’s junior doctors…
Read more...A North Yorkshire health trust’s decision to create its own ‘in house’ home care service could backfire and leave vulnerable local people without care, providers…
Read more...The Royal Alfred Seafarers’ Society, the Surrey-based charity which provides a care home and sheltered housing dedicated to the care and welfare of seafarers and…
Read more...Scotland’s health secretary has confirmed the government has delayed its flagship plan to set up a National Care Service (NCS) by three years. Michael Matheson…
Read more...Kate Lee Alzheimer’s Society CEO, will receive an OBE for her work in the charity sector, as part of the 2024 New Year Honours List,…
Read more...When a call was put out to send 100 birthday cards to a Great Yarmouth care home resident for her 100th birthday, little did she…
Read more...We here at THE CARER are offering care homes the opportunity to win A PRIZE FOR YOU AND YOUR CARE HOME. We are inviting Care Homes around the UK to share…
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