A group of local 16 and 17 year olds have been thanked by a Camden care home for supporting residents with dementia as part of the National Citizen Service (NCS). The teenagers visited Wellesley Road Care Home over three days, ...

Responding to a report by The King’s Fund and the University of York on home care services, Cllr Ian Hudspeth, Chairman of the Local Government Association’s Community Wellbeing Board, said: “This worrying report is further evidence of the funding crisis ...

A passion for providing delicious and nutritious food and a varied programme of activities to promote wellbeing has won awards for two Braintree care homes. The New Deanery and St Mary’s Court in Bocking scooped the Essex Care Sector Prosper ...

South Gloucestershire and Stroud (SGS) College held a workshop for care home managers, Friday 30 November. The workshop was the third in a series of ongoing events created specifically to support and up-skill care home managers. These workshops cover a ...

Squeezed funding and staff shortages are severely affecting home care services in some areas, a new report from The King’s Fund and the University of York has found. Home care in England: views from commissioners and providers finds that the ...

BAGPIPES were skirling at a Teesside care home as St Andrew’s Day was celebrated with traditional Scottish fare. Haggis was enjoyed by residents at Briarwood Care Home, on Normanby Road, Middlesbrough, while they listened to piper Paul Mack play. The ...

At the age of 92, and less than a year after breaking his back in a fall, local World War II veteran, Dennis Humphreys, has surpassed expectations by learning to walk again in time for Christmas, all thanks to a ...

Care England, National Activity Providers Association (NAPA) and National Care Forum (NCF) have announced that they are working together to support Care Home Open Day 2019.  Professor Martin Green OBE, Chief Executive of Care England says: “We have learned so ...

Care village operator, Belong, has achieved international acclaim for Excellence in the Third Sector at the Investors in People Awards 2018, in recognition of its outstanding people management practices. The award, which recognises the best organisations of 500+ employees in ...

TENANTS from an Edinburgh retirement housing development have been taken back in time with a play showcasing 1950s Leith. Joined by pupils from Abbeyhill Primary School on Thursday 29th November, tenants from Bield’s Gordon Court were treated to a first glimpse ...