All Staff at Encore Care Homes to Become Dementia Friends
Every member of the team at Encore Care Homes will undergo training to become a Dementia Friend. New and existing members of the team working…
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Dementia Care
Government Scraps Care Home Isolation Rule for Low Risk Visits Out
Care home residents will be able to leave their home for “low risk” visits without having to self-isolate for 14 days on their return the…
Read more...Reform of Social Care “Doomed” Unless Issues of Fragile Provider Market are Addressed
A report from the Nuffield Trust warns that years of delay to social care reform and a fragmented market has left provider services unstable and…
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UK and EU Risk Act of Self-Harm Unless They Lift Vaccine Patents
UN Human Rights Commissioner and former Irish President, Mary Robinson, has called on the UK and the EU to support a waiver of intellectual property…
Read more...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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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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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…
Read more...Farm’s Dementia Friendly Workshops For Arty Elderly
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…
Read more...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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