Alzheimer’s Research UK is asking people to take part in a new survey that could help shape future treatments for dementia. The online survey asks for people’s views on the aspects of daily life that are most important to them, ...

Staff and residents at Care South’s St Martins Grange care home in Gillingham enjoyed a very special day at the home on Saturday (17th August), when one resident celebrated her 100th birthday. Sheila Humphries enjoyed a party with her family ...

The future of hundreds of hospices and palliative care services which provide vital treatment and support for patients at the end of their life will now be protected thanks to a multi-million-pound funding boost from Prime Minister Boris Johnson. The ...

A charity that sets up and runs befriending schemes that have contributed to care homes being upgraded to outstanding is looking for more care homes to join the scheme. “Nearly one-in-four of the care homes that we have worked with ...

Members of the team from Stoke Mandeville’s Fremantle Court nursing home, run by The Fremantle Trust, gathered with Bucks-based Construction Specialties to officially cut the ribbon of a transformed garden room at the home. Keen to give back to the ...

Age UK has launched a new report today that says too many older people in our society are on too many prescribed medicines, putting them at risk of side effects that in a worrying number of cases can lead to ...

More than 150,000 members of the public and more than 50 health leaders are calling on Prime Minister Boris Johnson to take action now to address the escalating crisis in care. In what is believed to be the largest petition of its kind, ...

The Care Innovation Hub held the Challenge Final in the Department of Health and Social Care on 14th August 2019. Care sector leaders were present to listen to the 8 finalists whose ideas had the potential make a significant impact ...

Young volunteers, from the National Citizenship Service (NCS), raised over £400 to give Mundy House care home in Basildon a colourful and artistic garden. As part of the refurbishment new plants were planted, garden furniture, decking and fences were painted ...

A six-year-old girl has raised money for the charity caring for her grandfather. Greta Thomas held a summer fundraiser at her home for The Royal Star & Garter Home in Surbiton, which is caring for grandfather Mark Farmer. Thirty friends ...