Cautious Welcome for Double Visits
Today’s Government announcement increasing the number of visitors care and nursing home residents can have has met with a cautious welcome from providers. Provider body
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Dementia Care
Two Visitors Allowed in Care Homes to Reunite Loved Ones
Care home residents in England will be able to receive two visitors indoors from Monday 12 April as covid restrictions continue to be cautiously eased.
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Ad-Memoire – A New Digital Reminiscence Activity Resource Featuring Vintage TV Ads – A Perfect App For Use In Care Organisations
Packed with memorable 1950s & 60s TV and print ads from the History of Advertising Trust archive, and encouraging smiles and laughter all round, Ad-Memoire
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Helping Care Teams Engage
by Gillian Hesketh of Happy Days Dementia Workshop & Design Alongside healthy eating and exercise, social engagement is paramount for overall wellbeing. That’s why at
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Dame Barbara Windsor And Scott Mitchell Stand With Alzheimer’s Society At No.10 To Demand Dementia Care Reform
Dame Barbara Windsor and her husband Scott Mitchell present an open letter signed by more than 100,000 to No.10 calling on the Prime Minister to
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People with Dementia Spend Almost £15bn of their Own Money Waiting for Government Care Reforms
New analysis published today (Tuesday 9 July) by Alzheimer’s Society reveals people living with dementia have had to spend almost £15bn of their own money
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Unpaid Carers Face Bleak Financial Future Paying Care Costs
New research released today by Carers UK, the leading membership charity for people caring unpaid for family and friends, shows unpaid carers are “bankrupting their
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Dementia UK Publishes New Information Resource on Pain
Dementia UK’s new information leaflet aims to tackle one of the more challenging aspects of dementia. People with dementia experience pain but they may not
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Health Walks in the Cairngorms National Park Have Become Dementia Friendly
The UK’s largest National Park have received Dementia Friendly Walking accreditation for their Nethy Bridge Health Walk. This accreditation standard from Paths for All means
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People with Dementia Should be Offered Activities to Promote Wellbeing
People living with dementia should be offered activities such as exercise, aromatherapy, art, gardening, baking, reminiscence therapy, music therapy, mindfulness and animal assisted therapy to
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AN INNER city farm is running dementia friendly art workshops for care home residents in South Yorkshire. A series of four workshops have been taking
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Less Than Half Take Health Check that Could Prevent Dementia
Less than half of over-40s have taken a free national health check which could reduce the risk of dementia, according to NHS England. The 20-minute
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Christmas Cards Swapped for Helping Lonely Elderly
A CHRISTMAS tradition has been swapped for helping Northumberland’s lonely elderly by Blyth care home staff. Staff at The Oaks Care Home chose to forgo
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Give Older and Vulnerable Hope for 2019 – Plea
A provider has called on the Government to publish the Green Paper on social care and give 1.4m people currently going without care some hope
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Youngsters Deliver Dozens of Christmas Presents to Elderly
NURSERY children have given dozens of Christmas presents to elderly care home residents in Sandiacre. The children from Brookhill House Day Nursery, in Stapleford, near
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