A COVID-19 booster vaccination markedly increases immune response in residents and staff within care homes, making it vital that people living and working in these…
Read more...Research from Age UK shows a massive 1.4 million older people are expecting to feel lonely this Christmas, and worrying numbers are feeling depressed and anxious about the prospect of spending it alone.
Read more...As World Kindness Day approaches (13 November), Ashridge Court Care Centre is reaching out to the community to ask people to write to its residents….
Read more...Age UK is urging all older people to stay well this winter and wherever possible to have both the Covid 19 booster vaccine and the flu…
Read more...THE CHANCELLOR must avert a major crisis in the care of older and vulnerable people by investing in the sector this Wednesday, providers have said.
Read more...Six key priorities or ‘building blocks’ for better care so everyone can age well are set out in a new paper, ‘Care 2030’, published today (18 October 2021)
Read more...Researchers The British Medical Journal have suggested a link between noise made by transport services and dementia risk. Using common ways to measure noise levels,…
Read more...Staff and residents at Barchester’s Ashcombe house care home in worting road were treated to a unique performance from English National Ballet’s Philharmonic Orchestra to…
Read more...Mrs Betty Spear celebrated her 108th birthday at St Judes Nursing home in Sutton, making her the oldest lady in London. “I still feel 21” she remarked.
Read more...New analysis from the charity Age UK has found that in the two years since the Prime Minister made his promise to “fix social care once and for all”, over 1.4 million requests for social care
Read more...New analysis from Age UK has found that during the second wave of the pandemic, the numbers of over-65s in the UK who were providing unpaid care for someone almost doubled to more than four million
Read more...New Age UK analysis finds that the experience of living through the fear, enforced isolation and inactivity caused by the pandemic has sharply accelerated the care needs of significant numbers of older people.
Read more...From Monday 17 May care home residents will be able to have more named visitors and more opportunities to make visits out with no need…
Read more...Residents and staff at Meadow House nursing home in Swaffham, Norfolk – which is rated as Outstanding by the Care Quality Commission – have completed…
Read more...RESIDENTS at a Kilmarnock care home have signed up to a novel pen pal partnership with another older people’s residence in Kilmarnock – but this…
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