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Combatting Loneliness with Home Care Companionship Services

Combatting Loneliness with Home Care Companionship Services

Combatting Loneliness with Home Care Companionship Services
10 Top Tips for Engaging with Clients At Home
by Gillian Hesketh, MD Happy Days…

care home garden - raised beds

Ensuring your care home garden is accessible

Gardens are an appealing feature of any care home – not only can they brighten up the view from inside but, once the sun is shining, they provide a sensory-rich…

social work apprenticeship - two apprentices studying

Tackling diversity and retention issues through social work apprenticeship

Joanna Rawles, Head of Social Work at The Open University, discusses its new social work apprenticeship and how a wider range of applicants can be reached……

Meltemi Company Clothing

Meltemi Company Clothing

Wearing appropriate clothing in the workplace is particularly important when it comes to Residential Care Homes.  It sounds obvious, but ensuring that your staff are…

Preparing to Sell your care home?

Preparing to Sell?

Selling a care business is a complex process, requiring assistance from various care industry professionals along the way. For due diligence, it would be prudent to…

The Latest Technology That’s Driving Quality of Life in Dementia Care

The Latest Technology That’s Driving Quality of Life in Dementia Care

With dementia care in residential care settings becoming increasingly important as diagnoses rise, Person Centred Software has launched a new ‘Who I Am’ feature as…

Ultimate Underfoot Comfort Trainer

Ultimate Underfoot Comfort

Cosyfeet’s new Mambo shoe for swollen feet is designed to provide supreme underfoot comfort. Its shock-absorbing…

How to make private healthcare more accessible

How to make private healthcare more accessible

Rob Cottingham, credit director at consumer finance specialist, Duologi, discusses the pressure on the NHS and how this can…

Great Oaks head chef announced finalist of South West Regional Cook-Offs

Great Oaks head chef announced finalist of South West Regional Cook-Offs

Patrick Fensterseifer, head chef of Great Oaks care home in Bournemouth, is celebrating being named a finalist of the South West Regional Cook-Offs in the NACC Care…

New Evaluation Indicates A Digital-First Approach Is Key To Long-Term Quality And Sustainability In Delivery Of Social Care

New Evaluation Indicates A Digital-First Approach Is Key

New Evaluation Indicates A Digital-First Approach Is Key To Long-Term Quality And…

Grahame Gardner workwear line

Grahame Gardner sets the trend with revamped workwear line

LEADING workwear provider, Grahame Gardner Ltd, has relaunched an innovative range of garments which bring state-of-the art fabrics together with the latest printing…

Refurbished kitchen

Temporary catering facilities for events and kitchen refurbishments

Mobile Kitchens Ltd specialises in the hire or sale of temporary catering facilities and foodservice equipment. Ideal for events or to provide temporary catering…

Hospital tombola helps care home raise funds for charity

Hospital tombola helps care home raise funds for charity

CARE home staff are continuing to raise hundreds of pounds for stroke survivors and their families – as part of a year-long fundraising campaign.

A tombola at…

Koubou Interiors

Koubou Interiors

Koubou Interiors is an award-winning Interior Architecture and Design company specialising in Healthcare and Commercial design.

Koubou Interiors is a BIID (…

Dementia Support Group

First Dementia Support Group Launched at Winchester Care Home

The Winchester care home, Tegfield House has launched a new dementia support group for…

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Web-based portal Lifepsychol monitors patients' quality of life

Chroma, the UK’s leading national provider of arts therapy services, is to pilot Lifepsychol, an innovative new patient-driven system that could ultimately help up to…

TWIDDLEMUFFS and dolls have been donated to a North Yorkshire care home to help residents with dementia.

Twiddlemuffs and doll donations help residents with dementia

Twiddlemuffs and dolls have been donated to a North Yorkshire care home to help residents with dementia.

Volunteers from two separate groups…

Care home’s seaside appeal for resident Eddie’s 85th birthday

Care home’s seaside appeal for resident Eddie’s 85th birthday

AN APPEAL has been issued to give an elderly care home resident a seaside birthday party – despite being almost 70 miles from the nearest coastal town.

Staff…

Double marathon sponsored walk for care home garden

Double marathon sponsored walk for care home garden

WALKERS are aiming to conquer a double marathon in less than 24 hours to raise funds for a sensory garden at a Cheshire care home.

More than half a dozen…

Superfan Malcolm enjoys T-Rex tribute concert 

Superfan Malcolm enjoys T-Rex tribute concert

T-REX superfan Malcolm Temke got to see his favourite band live again when tribute act T-Rextasy played Middlesbrough Theatre.

Despite his dementia, Malcolm…

Bow The Pat Dog Shares The Love

Bow The Pat Dog shares the love with vulnerable people

A Somerset woman with a life-long passion for dogs is sharing the love with vulnerable people near her home in Bridgwater, thanks to the charity Pets As Therapy. …

Et Voilà! Bearsden Care Home Residents Learn French

Et Voilà! Bearsden Care Home Residents Learn French

Residents at a care home in Bearsden are proving it’s never too late to learn a new language by taking up French lessons.

Meallmore’s Antonine House care home…

Naidex 45: bringing you the future of healthcare

Naidex 45: bringing you the future of healthcare

Over the past few years the patient journey has been streamlined thanks to personalised care available through the innovative technology ready for professionals to…

thousands unite against dementia

Thousands of ‘glow-getters’ put dementia to bed at Ready Steady GLOW in Manchester

Thousands of people took to the streets of Manchester at the weekend to unite against dementia.

More than 3,400 attended Alzheimer’s Society’s special 5km…

Pelton Grange Care Home resident Margaret Carr (right) with her daughter Christine Mordue at a dementia friendly screening of Mamma Mia!.

Residents at Pelton Grange care home enjoy dementia friendly screening of hit musical

A DEMENTIA friendly screening of blockbuster musical Mamma Mia! was a hit with Pelton Grange care home residents in the North East.…

The Beeches Care Home deputy manager Rachel Harris, home manager Jess Brown and carer Amy Trattles with resident Janet Wren when they dropped off donations to the neonatal unit at University Hospital of North Tees on Random Act of Kindness Day.

Newborns receive Random Act of Kindness from care home

RANDOM Act of Kindness Day saw care home staff and residents donating a trove of supplies for Teesside’s newborns.

Nappies, beanie hats,…

Sunrise of Sonning nursing students

Sunrise of Sonning launches placement scheme for budding Nursing students

Sunrise of Sonning, on Old Bath Road, has launched a scheme to give nursing students an opportunity to train and learn in a hands-on environment, in addition to their…

Medical Refrigeration in Care Homes: Safety, Stability, Quality and Reliability

Medical Refrigeration in Care Homes: Safety, Stability, Quality and Reliability

Medical refrigeration is a topic that any hospital, pharmacy or medical facility must take seriously. The same applies to care homes, which handle and manage…

Creating Safer Heating In The Care Sector

Creating Safer Heating In The Care Sector

Despite the tight regulations laid down by the Health and Safety Executive, concern is continuing to grow around resident safety in care homes amid reports that some…

Hazelgrove Court Care Home resident Pat Keleher knitting a belt for a dressing gown as part of a Knit for Peace UK initiative

Technicolour dressing gowns to keep elderly warm this winter

JOSEPH’S technicolour dressing gowns were knitted by Hazelgrove Court care home residents in Saltburn-by-the-Sea.

Residents at Hazelgrove Court Care Home, on…

Pendock’s LST radiator guards in a bedroom

Pendock’s LST radiator guards protect against risk of burns in care homes

Richard Braid, managing director at Pendock, explains how low surface temperature (LST) radiator guards can help care homes manage the risk of burns from radiators…