Care Homes

Green-fingered residents at a Hertfordshire care home have been greeted by a surprise visit from an internationally renowned garden designer.

Avonbridge care home, Hamilton, has thanked its local community for helping to create an in-house cinema room for its residents.

Prof Graham Leslie CBE has raised over £10,000 so far for the Carers Trust’s Emergency Fund through his song United Together

Local lady Eileen Kelk celebrated her 100th birthday in style at Ruddington Manor, located on Ruddington Lane in Wilford, despite being in lockdown.

Barclays Digital Eagles have pledged to deliver digital skills, through virtual training, to at least 500 care homes across the UK in 2020.

An Optalis residential care home in Maidenhead has surprised its residents with an ice cream treat, after months in isolation due to the coronavirus outbreak. Staff at Homeside Close

The chief executive of one of the UK’s more prominent social care providers, which has not suffered a single death in its 130 homes due to Covid-19, has hit back at claims that the sector is no longer safe for vulnerable people.

A local Newcastle boy has raised over £250 for HC-One’s Sutherland Court in Newcastle, after organising and completing his own sponsored cycle.

Dorothy Ives, who has been a Resident at Sutherland Court since January 2013, celebrated her 102nd birthday surrounded by balloons, cards and her most favourite thing, chocolate.

Age UK says that while arguments continue over care funding during the pandemic, it is older people and their families who are picking up the tab

Amberleigh House Care Home in Aintree, Liverpool, is under the new ownership of West Midlands-based healthcare provider Armighorn Capital. The deal was funded by a…

A 91-year old tenant of Surrey-based Belvedere House, the maritime care home of The Royal Alfred Seafarers’ Society, has raised £5,000 for the home’s keyworkers by walking laps of the grounds for 30 days.

A young horse rider from Derbyshire with learning difficulties has used her time in lockdown to raise money for her local riding school by holding a show jumping competition at the care service in which she lives.