Dorset Care Home Residents ‘Moved To Get Active’ By Team Member’s Charity Run
A group of people who live with dementia in Dorset had an especially active month with inspiration from a charity run by a member of…
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Blackpool Home Creates Amazing Garden Poppy Display From Recycled Bottles
A Blackpool home has created an amazing garden poppy display from recycled plastic bottles. MHA Pennystone Court have created the display ahead of remembrance day…
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Chorleywood Care Home Shines Bright For Festival Of Lights – Diwali
Residents at Chorleywood Beaumont Care Home in Chorleywood had a brilliant day celebrating the Hindu festival of Diwali, popularly known as the ‘festival of lights’.
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Early Success for New Nursing Care Unit at Waterside Care Home in Southwark
Care provider Agincare has partnered with Southwark Council to increase nursing care and reablement capacity in the borough with the opening of a new specialist…
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HC-One Residents And Colleagues Mark Remembrance Day
HC-One care homes across the country have been preparing for Remembrance Day on Saturday 11th November. At Rose Court Care Home in Radcliffe, Manchester, residents…
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Report on Reforming Social Care Reveals £1bn “Redirected”
The National Audit Office (NAO) published a report looking at Reforming Adult Social Care in England, and suggests that the government is behind its revised…
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Meet Honey, A Makaton Responding Therapy Dog at Local Care Home
Tees Grange, a complex care nursing home in Stockton-on-Tees, has an unconventional four-legged staff member: two-year-old golden Labrador retriever, Honey. Having become an integral part…
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Care Home Creates One-Of-A-Kind Garden Designed To Evoke Past Memories
Castle Dene care home, located in Bournemouth and part of Care South, enlisted the help of the Memory Box Foundation to create a specially designed…
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Oxford Home Upcycles Used Plastic Bottles To Make More Than 100 Poppies As Part Of Remembrance Day Display
An Oxford home has been keeping residents busy by making more than 100 poppies from recycled bottles. MHA Brookfield was asking for donations of plastic…
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Chislehurst Care Home Receives Surprise Visit From Rocky The Donkey
Residents at RMBI Care Co. Home Prince George Duke of Kent Court in Chislehurst, Kent were delighted recently when Rocky the donkey came to visit….
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Remembrance Day – Please Let Us Share Your Stories
One of the great and humbling privileges we here at THE CARER are proud to partake in is publishing and sharing YOUR Remembrance Day Commemorations….
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Care Home Residents’ Memories Bring A Special Resonance To Remembrance Day
As we near Remembrance Day, residents of the Gloucestershire care charity Lilian Faithfull Care share their first-hand experiences of conflicts and serving in the forces….
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Westgate Celebrate Their Outstanding Team Members At The First Westgate Care Awards
Outstanding employees at Westgate Healthcare were recognised at a glittering awards ceremony organised in their honour. 16 team members across 8 homes had their hard…
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Women Achieving Greatness – Triple Nomination For Care Home Workers
Staff and residents at Barchester’s Ashcombe House Care Home in Worting road, Basingstoke are ecstatic because three of their hard-working colleagues have reached the final…
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Elderly Have A Hoot During Feathered Friends’ Flying Visit
OWLS have been lifting the spirits of elderly care home residents in Huddersfield as part of a remarkable therapy initiative. The usually solitary birds brought…
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