Care Home News
Nile Rodgers acts as ambassador for dementia music day
30 Jul 2019
Musician and producer Nile Rodgers is to be this year’s ambassador for BBC Music Day as part of a new project to bring music to everyone living with dementia by 2020. The multiple winning Grammy musician.....
Soap star who played vicar with dementia unveils care home that's 'like a 7-star hotel'
30 Jul 2019
Actor John Middleton, who famously played a vicar with dementia in the ITV soap Emmerdale, has opened a new care home that is ‘like a 7-star hotel’. Well-known for his portrayal of Emmerdale character.....
Care staff rise to the challenge of Snowdon to raise money for Dementia UK
29 Jul 2019
Colleagues from Millennium Care Group have raised £1,000 for Dementia UK after completing a fundraising challenge in Snowdonia National Park. A team of seven colleagues from Norley Hall Care Home, Worthington.....
PM tells Corbyn to think of nation and help find 'cross-party consensus' for social care
25 Jul 2019
In Boris Johnson’s first speech in the House of Commons as Prime Minister, he told Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn to think of “the good of the nation” and help find a cross party consensus to improve social care......
Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he has a plan to 'fix the crisis in social care once and for all'
24 Jul 2019
Speaking on the steps of 10 Downing Street, Prime Minister Boris Johnson told Britain “We will fix the crisis in social care once and for all”. After being formally asked by Her Majesty the Queen to form.....
Warning to spicy food lovers as scientists link spicy diet to dementia
24 Jul 2019
Scientists are warning those who love spicy food to think twice before adding that extra dollop of chilli or jalapeno pepper to their meal, after research linked a spicy diet to dementia. Scientists from.....
London's oldest man who cut the hair of Charlton Heston turns 108
24 Jul 2019
The oldest man in London and third oldest in the UK, who cut the hair of Charlton Heston and dyed the hair of the Crown Prince of Arabia, has just celebrated his 108th birthday. Born in Bermondsey, South East.....
CQC wins legal case to shut down 'degrading' care home
23 Jul 2019
A care home that left residents in their rooms on urine-soaked mattresses has been shut down, despite a care provider's legal challenge to stop the Care Quality Commission cancelling its registration. At.....
Moon landing celebrated by residents who ride care home's 'space rocket' lift
23 Jul 2019
Clad in a white space suit, man took his first tentative step out of the Apollo 11’s space capsule ‘Eagle’, accompanied by excited pensioners whose journey to the Moon saw them soar to the first floor of their care home in a lift.....
Care home residents go wild for 30 days making daisy chains and counting bees
23 Jul 2019
Last month, all ten of our care homes took part in a nationwide campaign organised by the Wildlife Trusts, challenging residents to complete one act of wildness per day. These included nature journals, wild.....
Exclusive: Care Minister says 'neither green paper nor government' can alone solve all social care's woes
22 Jul 2019
In an exclusive interview, Care Minister Caroline Dinenage, who kept her job after Mr Johnson’s government reshuffle, has spoken out to say "neither the green paper nor the Government - national or local - will solve all the challenges.....
Care homes 'ignore apathy' in people with dementia as it makes them 'less disruptive'
18 Jul 2019
Scientists have found that apathy in people with dementia is ‘often ignored’ in care homes, due to it being less disruptive than other symptoms such as aggression. The researchers from Exeter University,.....
Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt urged by care homes' elderly to make social care free at point of use
18 Jul 2019
Older people living in care homes across the country have made a personal appeal to PM hopefuls Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt to make social care ‘free at the point of delivery’. More than 200 elderly people.....
Man in his 80s charged with murdering 89-year-old wife in care home
17 Jul 2019
A man in his 80s has been charged with murdering his elderly wife, who was living in a care home in Norwich. Police from Norfolk Constabulary were called to Grays Fair Court care home in New Costessey at.....
Telecare helps people with learning disabilities like William 'feel safe' at home says care group
15 Jul 2019
The care group Hft is urging the government to unleash the untapped potential of assistive technologies by creating a ‘sector deal’ to help those with learning disabilities. The new report launched by.....
Ex-WW2 land girl dubbed 'chicken whisperer' as she 'hengages' with arts project
15 Jul 2019
A 93-year-old care home resident who kept chickens during WW2 whilst in the Women’s Land Army has been dubbed ‘the chicken whisperer’ after connecting with several of the birds who visited her care home as part of an arts project. Irene.....
Nearly a third of care home staff want CCTV cameras in care homes
12 Jul 2019
Thirty per cent of care staff would like there to be CCTV in both the communal areas and bedrooms of care homes, according to a new survey by the leading reviews site, carehome.co.uk. The figure was sourced.....
In memory of 'Nana'- grandson takes on 'Tough Mudder' for care home memorial bench
10 Jul 2019
Conor Ryder has just completed a gruelling 10-mile run which included plunging into ice-cold water and running through dangling live wires, in memory of his 'Nana', Pauline Allen who passed away in September last year. Mr.....
MPs attack Matt Hancock for backing Boris' £8bn tax cut for rich rather than social care
10 Jul 2019
Health secretary Matt Hancock found himself in hot water as he faced MPs on the Health and Social Care Committee, who attacked his failures with the words: “It’s your job. Why don’t you just do it?” In a.....
Care home and home care managers get £3m to spend on training
10 Jul 2019
For the first time, care managers can apply for dedicated funding to develop their skills and knowledge. Targeted funding from the Workforce Development Fund is being offered to specifically develop care.....
People with dementia have spent billions waiting for government care solution
09 Jul 2019
Alzheimer’s Society reveals people living with dementia have spent almost £15 billion of their own money in the last two years waiting for the government to reform social care. In the two-year period, the total number of people.....
Michael Gove opens dementia café at Surrey care home
09 Jul 2019
MP Michael Gove, who was recently knocked out of the Tory leadership contest, has opened a new dementia café at Kingsclear care home in Camberley. Mr Gove, who is Secretary of State for Environment, Food.....
Amazon promises to stop selling 'dementia restraint' products
09 Jul 2019
Amazon has pledged to stop selling products described as 'dementia restraints' after charities and care organisations condemned it as "shocking". Care home activities coordinator, Chrissi Dunn, exposed.....
Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt told first priority is reforming adult social care
08 Jul 2019
A leading think tank has called on the next Prime Minister to make reforming the adult social care system their first priority as leader. The King’s Fund has written an open letter to the two candidates.....
Health Secretary Matt Hancock: 'We should have fixed social care by now'
04 Jul 2019
Matt Hancock, the secretary for health and social care has told a room full of local government leaders, “we should have fixed social care by now”. The health secretary admitted while he is “committed” to.....
Care home worker filmed repeatedly punching bedbound man is jailed
04 Jul 2019
A care worker has been jailed after he was secretly filmed punching a 67-year-old man in the groin as he lay in his bed at a care home. Ex-care home worker Vangirai Michael Kufa, who appeared at.....
Peers call for free personal care, £8bn and a social care white paper to end 'national scandal'
04 Jul 2019
£8 billion must be ‘spent immediately’ by the government on England’s adult social care and free personal care should be available to everyone, a House of Lords Committee has recommended. Free personal.....
Department of Health forced to rethink care homes' nursing rates after legal challenge
02 Jul 2019
A legal challenge by Care England has forced the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) to conduct a national review into the rates paid for nursing in care homes. NHS-funded nursing care (FNC) is.....
Transgender care home residents with dementia: 'What if capacity is lost?'
02 Jul 2019
There is a growing transgender community that will need to be cared for by nursing and residential homes in the years to come and mental capacity is an unexplored area for future trans care home residents who may develop dementia. For.....
National festival to celebrate care workers
02 Jul 2019
Let’s celebrate all that is good about people who work in care with the second annual Professional Care Workers’ Day on 4 September, says Karolina Gerlich, chief executive of the National Association for Care and Support Workers. For.....