Care Home News
Britain's oldest men Alf and Bob celebrate their 110th birthdays
29 Mar 2018
Britain’s two oldest men, Alf Smith and Bob Weighton, have celebrated turning 110-years-old today. Born on 29 March 1908, they've lived through two world wars, the moon landings and the birth of the NHS......
Levi Roots dementia gig: 'If your elders accept you, you know you're loved'
29 Mar 2018
Dragon’s Den Star Levi Roots has revealed that playing reggae tunes at a cafe for people with dementia was one of his 'hardest gigs'. The charismatic entrepreneur and Reggae Reggae sauce inventor chatted.....
Care minister Caroline Dinenage is keynote speaker at leading dementia conference
26 Mar 2018
Minister of State for Care, Caroline Dinenage, is to speak at The Dementia Care & Nursing Home Expo, along with other high-profile care leaders such as CQC’s Andrea Sutcliffe and Care England’s Martin Green. The.....
Leaving Mum in a care home is 'like taking your child to school for the first time'
23 Mar 2018
The daughter of an 80-year-old woman with dementia reveals how hard it was to leave her mum in a care home. Despite feeling torn between checking on her and ‘leaving her to settle’, photographs reveal her mum's dramatic improvement.....
Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston backs #ShareTheOrange dementia campaign
22 Mar 2018
Breaking Bad actor Bryan Cranston is the latest television star urging the nation to #ShareTheOrange to encourage people to think differently about dementia. The American screenwriter is calling on people.....
Neglect most common in care homes with high rates of staff burnout
22 Mar 2018
Neglect is widespread in care homes in England where staff are under huge amounts of pressure, unable to offer person-centred care, according to researchers. The study by University College London (UCL) surveyed.....
Selfless care home manager sat with dying resident for five days and nights
21 Mar 2018
For care home manager Donna Evans, dedication to residents and personally seeing to their care remains a constant. She recently sat with an elderly resident who was at the end of her life - staying at her.....
Stopping overmedication of autistic people prioritized by 'outstanding' care home
21 Mar 2018
A care home service in Northamptonshire has put ending the overmedication of people with autism at the heart of its care, with inspectors rating the provider outstanding. Alderwood provides residential care.....
Jeremy Hunt pledges care cap to stop 'unfair' costs for those with dementia
20 Mar 2018
Health and Social Care Secretary Jeremy Hunt has launched his blueprint for reforming the social care system, promising the much anticipated Green Paper in the summer will “kick start the vital debate” into social care funding. Speaking.....
Intergenerational care: Residents' faces 'light up' when they see the children
20 Mar 2018
A Channel 4 experiment on intergenerational care has inspired a care home in Derbyshire to integrate young children into the home. The TV programme ‘Old People’s Home for 4 Year Olds’, which brought together.....
Care home manager loses three toes during world's coldest race
19 Mar 2018
Nick Griffiths, a manager at Care UK, has lost three toes from frostbite, after undertaking a gruelling 300 mile race in Canada, where temperatures dropped as low as -54 degrees. Mr Griffiths was raising.....
Care chief tells care homes 'don't wait for Government to find solution'
16 Mar 2018
The chief of Care England has called on care homes to look at how they can lead the social care agenda, warning them ‘don’t wait for the Government to find a solution’. At the end of last year, the Competition.....
Care home pharmacists recruited by NHS to help cut overmedication
16 Mar 2018
NHS England is planning to fund the recruitment of 240 pharmacists into care homes to help reduce overmedication and avoid unnecessary hospital stays. Around 180,000 people living in nursing or residential.....
'Poor performing' care homes increase in one in five local authorities
15 Mar 2018
One in five local authority areas saw an increase in the proportion of care homes rated Inadequate or Requires Improvement over the past year, according to research by older people’s charity Independent Age......
How to challenge a CQC inspection report
14 Mar 2018
A Care Quality Commission rating can make or break a care home, so it is vital care homes feel they are able to protect their reputations and can challenge inspection report findings if there is justification. It.....
'Tigger-like' Hammond's Spring Statement condemned by social care's 'Eeyores'
13 Mar 2018
Philip Hammond was bouncy as he delivered his Spring Statement, describing himself as ‘positively Tigger-like’ while announcing the economy had grown every year since 2010, however his speech gave no joy to the care sector. With.....
Councils 'rainy day' money raided to fund 14 per cent rise in demand for care
09 Mar 2018
Emergency funds are being raided as local authorities struggle to meet a rise in demand for social care and ease the pain of a 49 per cent fall in funding from the Government since 2010. The major drop in.....
Care home residents try out latest festival trend - the silent disco
09 Mar 2018
The silent disco which has become a popular phenomenon at festivals, has now found its way to a care home in London. Residents at Barchester Wimbledon Beaumont Care Community took part in the sensory experience which involves dancing to music.....
Sex is a basic 'human right' for elderly with dementia
08 Mar 2018
The care sector needs to let older people with dementia live as ‘full human beings’, according to Scottish Care’s chief executive who has condemned ‘negative and unhelpful attitudes’ about the elderly's sexual needs. ‘Human.....
Government to 'take action' to improve 'culture of feedback' for care homes
06 Mar 2018
People entering care should be ‘empowered’ to make informed decisions to protect them from unfair practices, says the Government, which stresses residents should also be 'aware of bodies outside care homes' that can assist with feedback.....
#SnowHeroes: Care workers ditch day off to battle into work for elderly
02 Mar 2018
Care home staff around the country slept in care homes, undertook marathon shifts and even battled blizzards on their day off to keep elderly safe from the ‘Beast from the East’. The Beast from the East.....
Mental health patients sent 'out of area' for care left vulnerable and isolated
01 Mar 2018
Thousands of people with mental health problems are being sent to residential rehabilitation services 'out of area', leaving them isolated and less likely to recover, a care watchdog has warned. A report.....