Care Home News
Care home of the Year is no 'last chance' hotel
07 Oct 2016
Happy staff have helped Silloth Nursing Home become Care Home of the Year for end-of-life care. The Cumbrian nursing home's senior nurse Linda Faulder said of residents, when she received the award from.....
Keeping audio diaries can boost confidence of people with dementia
07 Oct 2016
Recording regular audio diaries can boost the confidence of people with dementia and help to reduce stigma, according to a new study. Researchers at Leeds Beckett University evaluated ‘Dementia Diaries’,.....
Creature comforts for care home residents
06 Oct 2016
Residents at a dementia care home welcomed some furry friends into their home over two days of animal encounters. Lambs, goats, chickens and ducklings were among a number of animals taken to visit residents.....
Care home boss waits on staff at pop-up restaurant
05 Oct 2016
Staff at Coppice Lodge residential and dementia care home were left speechless when the group’s chief executive turned waiter at the home’s new pop-up restaurant. Ideal Carehomes’ chief executive Matt Lowe.....
Care home residents help hunt down lions in Scotland
05 Oct 2016
Residents from a Bupa care home have helped Scottish authorities track down ten lions in the town of Paisley. Twenty-five brightly-coloured lion sculptures were scattered around the town of Paisley in a public.....
Jeremy Hunt makes 'long overdue' pledge to help ageing population by training more UK doctors
04 Oct 2016
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has promised to deliver 25 per cent more training posts for the UK’s medical students to make Britain a more ‘self-sufficient’ country. In a speech at the Conservative Party conference.....
Care home's heartwarming video that went viral makes bid to win Care Home Idol
03 Oct 2016
When 86-year-old Northumberland care home resident, Pat was feeling a bit down and restless one evening at Wansbeck Care Home, a care worker stepped in to help cheer her up. One short 30-second video clip of the two singing and.....
Huntington's Disease occupational therapist shares expertise with top scientists at The Hague
03 Oct 2016
Kirsty Page, an occupational therapist from Badby Park, a care home for adults with complex needs, has been sharing her clinical knowledge on Huntington’s Disease with scientists at the European Huntington’s Disease Network (EHDN). She.....