Care Home News
Dementia Bus gives carehome.co.uk staff insight into life with dementia
29 Jul 2024
The Dementia Bus has paid a visit to Hungerford, delivering two days of dementia awareness training to staff from the UK’s leading reviews site for care homes and home care. Employees at carehome.co.uk and.....
Find out the top care homes in 2024
01 Mar 2024
carehome.co.uk, the UK’s leading care home reviews site, has revealed the top care homes in the country for 2024. The awards are based on reviews of the care home written by the residents who have experienced.....
UK's top care homes in 2023 revealed
21 Mar 2023
carehome.co.uk, the UK’s leading care home reviews site, has announced the top care homes in the country for 2023. The awards are based on reviews of the care home written by the residents experiencing the.....
carehome.co.uk launches free care helpline
03 Jan 2023
The UK’s largest care home reviews site, carehome.co.uk, has launched a free care helpline to support people in their search for a care home. Choosing the right care home can be time consuming as well as.....
5 mins with Emily Whitehurst, chief operating officer for Constantia Healthcare
13 Dec 2022
Emily Whitehurst recently joined Constantia Healthcare as its chief operating officer. She is responsible for the operational direction of the group, which has four care homes, two in the North-East of England and two in the North-West. She.....
'My heart skipped a beat' - two residents reunite after 60 years apart
30 Nov 2022
Two childhood friends who grew up as neighbours in Linlithgow have reunited by chance after losing touch 60 years ago. Irene Gresty and Janet Henderson, both 80, had been living just minutes apart at separate.....
Care home residents join with local schoolchildren to help local food bank
29 Nov 2022
At a time when so many families are feeling “immense financial pressure”, residents from a care home in Brockenhurst have joined forces with local schoolchildren to help produce hampers for the local food bank. The.....
Care home group announces £1.3m winter support package for all staff
28 Nov 2022
Hallmark Care Homes has announced its commitment to "supporting" all staff members by investing over one million pounds into a number of winter measures to help with the cost-of-living crisis. As part of.....
Care home veteran who served in Dunkirk celebrates his 103rd birthday
22 Nov 2022
John (Jack) Jeffrey Beavon, from Brook Court care home in Kidderminster who served in Dunkirk and is one of the only survivors left has celebrated his 103rd birthday with family and friends. Mr Beavon was.....
Hotel that hosted Pele during the World Cup becomes a luxury care home
21 Nov 2022
A hotel that hosted Pele and Brazil’s football team at the 1966 World Cup has been turned into a luxury care home. The 66-bed care home in Lymm, Cheshire, is less than one month away from completion and will.....
Care worker whose husband has to travel for cancer treatment wins new car
21 Nov 2022
A Peterborough care worker whose husband is having to travel for cancer treatment can now take him to his hospital appointments after winning a new car. Stacey Phillips who works as a care assistant at PJ Care Eagle Wood Neurological Care Centre.....
Care leaders warn social care is 'more than discharge arm of NHS' as Hunt delays cap
18 Nov 2022
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt said in his Autumn Statement speech that there were "very difficult times ahead" for people and said he must delay a cap on social care costs by two years but angry care leaders are warning that care is "much.....
Older people will see state pensions rise by 10.1% next April
17 Nov 2022
Older people are giving a sigh of relief, as the Chancellor has pledged to restore the triple lock in 2023, which will see a 10.1 per cent increase on state pensions and pension credit next April. Silver.....
Families hit by cost-of-living crisis get breakfast hampers from care home residents
17 Nov 2022
Shocked by reports of children going to school hungry, four residents in a care home have got together to organise breakfast and baby hampers for families hit by the cost-of-living crisis. Valarie Ward,.....
Nightmares could be early sign of Parkinson's
16 Nov 2022
Bad dreams and nightmares in older adults could be an early sign of Parkinson’s disease. People with Parkinson’s disease are known to have nightmares and bad dreams more than adults who do not have the disease,.....
Independent film screenings in capital's care homes boost elderly's mental health
16 Nov 2022
Independent film makers’ movies are being screened in care homes across London to bring cinema and creative art workshops to older people living in the capital. The Women Over 50 Film Festival (WOFFF) has.....
Disappointment as Roche's new Alzheimer's drug fails to slow cognitive decline
15 Nov 2022
The Alzheimer’s Society called it 'disappointing' after Roche revealed its drug gantenerumab failed to meet its primary target to slow down cognitive decline in people with Alzheimer’s. The drug also removed.....
Care home owner Anchor becomes real Living Wage employer
15 Nov 2022
Anchor, England’s largest not-for-profit provider of care and housing for older people, has become an accredited real Living Wage employer. The care group employs over 9,000 colleagues and is the largest.....
Warm banks open up in care homes 'to ease winter freeze' for over 65s
14 Nov 2022
‘Warm banks’ for people aged 65+ have been opened by care home operator Excelcare to give older people “refuge from the cold” and the cost-of-living crisis this winter. Excelcare, which operates 32 care.....
5 minutes with Mark Aitchison CEO of Colten Care
14 Nov 2022
Mark Aitchison is the chief executive and group finance director of Colten Care which owns and operates care homes in the south of England. Colten Care was established more than 40 years ago with the opening.....
Government draws up plan giving care home residents the legal right to see visitors
14 Nov 2022
The care minister has revealed the government is drawing up plans that will force care homes to allow visitors for residents, however a care leader has said care homes face being "vilified" on this issue when "we're trying our very.....
Care home manager wins £9,000 funding for future research projects
11 Nov 2022
A North Shields care home has won up to £9,000 in funding to run cutting edge research projects over the next two years. Clare Leonard, manager at Appleby Care Home has become the first care home manager to win a.....
Care home residents remember WWII and when the 'bombs were still falling'
10 Nov 2022
For care home residents up and down the country, Remembrance Day holds special significance and personal memories. In the run up to this year’s commemorations, three residents at Faithfull House Residential Care care home, Cheltenham.....
Rishi Sunak accused of trying to kill off care cap with two-year delay
10 Nov 2022
Rishi Sunak is believed to have suggested an 'indefinite' delay to a cap on personal care costs promised by Boris Johnson’s government, but 'accepted an initial postponement of two years’ after being warned scrapping it would be damaging.....
Lucian Freud's daughter Lucy gives Remembrance art class to care home residents
10 Nov 2022
Lucy Freud, celebrated artist and daughter of Lucian Freud, helped care home residents in Surbiton paint poppies and soldier silhouettes in honour of the home’s remembrance campaign ‘They gave their all for us’. Lucy.....
Care workers to get money off Christmas shopping and restaurants
09 Nov 2022
Care workers will be given discounts at restaurants and money off their Christmas shopping this winter to help them during the country's cost-of-living crisis. Yo! Sushi and Pizza Hut are just some of the.....
Care home resident who helped treat survivors during WWII celebrates 100th birthday
09 Nov 2022
A nurse who helped provide pioneering burns treatment for injured RAF aircrew and civilians during WWII has celebrated her 100th birthday. Janet Hunter was part of a team led by Sir Archibald McIndoe which.....
Care workers in England need a voluntary register to professionalise the care workforce
08 Nov 2022
Two social care organisations are calling for a “fundamental change” for the government to professionalise the care industry within England by introducing a voluntary register for the care workforce in England. The.....
Care home resident goes 'back home' to spend afternoon at her old place of work
07 Nov 2022
Kay Walker, a resident at MHA Greenways spent an afternoon at Santander Bank in Bognor Regis where she worked as a manager for 30 years, saying she has “come back home”. She was given a tour of the bank and.....
Care home resident, who lived with Jimi Hendrix and managed Cat Stevens, marries at 80
04 Nov 2022
A care home resident, who once lived with Jimi Hendrix and managed Cat Stevens, has got married at the age of 80. Gerald Horgan married his long-term partner, Pauline, at Candlewood House Care Home in Cricklewood,.....