Plans have been lodged with Rushcliffe Borough Council to build a new 70-bed care home on the site of the former police station in Bingham, Nottinghamshire. The proposal has been put forward by Edwalton-based Charterpoint Senior Living – specialists in ...

A group of local 16 and 17 year olds have been thanked by a Camden care home for supporting residents with dementia as part of the National Citizen Service (NCS). The teenagers visited Wellesley Road Care Home over three days, ...

Responding to a report by The King’s Fund and the University of York on home care services, Cllr Ian Hudspeth, Chairman of the Local Government Association’s Community Wellbeing Board, said: “This worrying report is further evidence of the funding crisis ...

A passion for providing delicious and nutritious food and a varied programme of activities to promote wellbeing has won awards for two Braintree care homes. The New Deanery and St Mary’s Court in Bocking scooped the Essex Care Sector Prosper ...

South Gloucestershire and Stroud (SGS) College held a workshop for care home managers, Friday 30 November. The workshop was the third in a series of ongoing events created specifically to support and up-skill care home managers. These workshops cover a ...

BAGPIPES were skirling at a Teesside care home as St Andrew’s Day was celebrated with traditional Scottish fare. Haggis was enjoyed by residents at Briarwood Care Home, on Normanby Road, Middlesbrough, while they listened to piper Paul Mack play. The ...

At the age of 92, and less than a year after breaking his back in a fall, local World War II veteran, Dennis Humphreys, has surpassed expectations by learning to walk again in time for Christmas, all thanks to a ...

Christmas came early this year for William Jakeman, a resident at New Care’s Ashlands Manor Care Centre in Sale, who was treated to an exclusive behind the scenes tour at Old Trafford. A life long Red, 98 year old William ...

ELVES were running around a Tyneside care home spreading Christmas cheer and raising funds for the fight against dementia. Willowdene Care Home, in Hebburn, near Newcastle, took part in The Alzheimer’s Society’s annual Elf Day. Staff and residents’ family members ...

BINGO brought teenagers and elderly care home residents together in Huddersfield. National Citizenship Service (NCS) students from the Huddersfield Giants Community Trust have been paying regular visits to Aden Court Care Home. The 15-to-17-year-olds organised a bingo night with nibbles ...