Borough Care, Stockport’s largest not-for-profit provider of care for older people, will be marking Care Home Open Day with a range of activities at all of its eleven homes. Now in its seventh year, Care Home Open Day is a ...

Award winning care home Kings Lodge in Camberley has joined forces with the towns Alzheimer’s Café to celebrate National Care Home Open Day. On Saturday 29 June a full day’s events are planned at the luxury home including live music, ...

RAINBOWS decorated a Teesside care home as part of activities to mark LGBT Pride Month. The “wear it rainbow” day held at The Beeches Care Home, Green Lane, Stockton-on-Tees, saw residents and staff dress in their most brightly coloured clothes. ...

The Royal Star & Garter Home in Solihull has become a Teaching Care Home after completing a one-year course. It means the Home in Tudor Coppice can now be considered a centre of excellence in person-centred care, teaching and learning. ...

THE CARNIVAL came to a Teesside care home as residents, staff and visitors celebrated National BBQ Week. The Beeches Care Home, on Green Lane, Stockton-on-Tees, gave an early welcome to the summer by bringing out the BBQ to mark the ...

Residents of a Poole care home have raised enough money to bring four, young cancer patients to Dorset on holiday this summer. Colten Care’s dedicated dementia home The Aldbury donated £2,218.62 – the proceeds of a whole year’s fundraising events ...

Friends and family joined a Second World War veteran at The Royal Star & Garter Home in Surbiton to help celebrate her 101st birthday. A party was held for Nora Birtwistle on Friday 7 June, with residents, family and guests ...

An Allithwaite care home’s Facebook post about how its night staff wear pyjamas for the benefit of residents with dementia went viral reaching 13 million people in just seven days. As part of a campaign during Dementia Action Week, The ...

AN INDOOR street party was held at a Runcorn care home to mark the 75th anniversary of D-Day. Staff at Simonsfield Care Home, on Boston Avenue, dressed as land girls for the occasion and residents donned Union Jack headscarves. The ...

Encore Care Homes has added a new module to its successful ‘Mind the Gap’ dementia training programme, which was launched last year across the care homes it manages in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Fareham. The new module, which is called ‘The ...