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Suppliers to care homes ready to help cut staffing costs
Zest Care Systems Ltd suppliers to care providers throughout the UK have completed a Management Buy Out. Well known healthcare computer software entrepreneur Martin Jones is pleased to announce he has completed the management buyout of Zest Care Systems. The company he founded with Michael Sheehan in 2009. The Leeds headquartered business was formed [...]
Dementia support group gets set to expand
A weekly support group to help people affected by dementia in North Staffordshire is to expand on the eve of its first anniversary. The group, launched last July, was formed especially for residents and families of the Accord Group’s Mill Rise Extra Care Village in Newcastle-under-Lyme. Now it will expand to offer support [...]
People who have skin cancer less likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease
People who have skin cancer may be less likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease, according to research published today in Neurology®. Researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, followed 1,102 people who did not have dementia. They had an average age of 79 and were followed for an average of 3.7 years. [...]
Care provider looks to marathon challenge to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support
The Director of Derby based Radis Community Care is set to run marathon four of 13 this weekend as he takes on the White Peak Marathon, near Matlock. In a bid to make this year their most successful fundraising year to date, Deepesh Patel has signed up to run 13 marathons in 2013. Deepesh [...]
Alzheimer’s Society grateful to Arnold Peters support
Arnold Peters, who starred as Jack Woolley in the BBC Radio 4 soap The Archers for over 30 years, passed away earlier this week. He had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Aged 87 Peters was diagnosed with the most common form of dementia shortly after the start of a storyline where his character developed the condition [...]
Living Well manager appointment for retirement village
A NEW staff member at a retirement village has swapped a career in fashion and a two hour daily commute for a job enhancing older people’s lives. Audra Hunt, 43, has joined Middleton Hall Retirement Village, in Middleton St George, near Darlington, after saying goodbye to a daily 52 mile commute to her previous [...]
The Prince’s Trust Team give care home garden a makeover
Residents and staff at Perth’s Balhousie North Inch Care Home are set to enjoy some colour this summer and beyond, following a two-week community project carried out by members of Perth and District YMCA Prince’s Trust Team Programme. As part of a community project The Prince’s Trust Team, which is delivered in partnership with [...]
Care provider secures funding for acquisition of specialist dementia care home
Local healthcare operator Karim Rajan has completed on the acquisition of Valley Lodge Care Home, thanks to substantial funding in the form of loan facilities from The Royal Bank of Scotland. Based in Chandlers Ford, Hampshire, Valley Lodge Care Home currently provides accommodation and personal care for 30 individuals. The home specialises in offering facilities [...]
Social care must get up off its knees and fight back against a raging tide of negativity
SOCIAL care must get up off its knees and fight back against a raging tide of negativity and spending cuts, a conference will be warned today. Mike Padgham will tell care providers that the sector, battered by damaging headlines and a lack of funding, needs to speak up for itself and remind the world what [...]
Government announces drive to up dementia diagnosis by 20 per cent
The NHS in England is to be tasked with driving dementia diagnosis rates up by 20 per cent by 2015 following a Government announcement today (Wednesday 15 May 2013). A quantifiable ambition on diagnosis forms the heart of an annual report on progress on the Prime Minister’s Dementia Challenge and could lead to 160,000 people [...]
£8.75m Extra Care scheme wins Residential award
Pickmere Court in Crewe has won the Residential category at the RICS NW regional awards in a ceremony which took place at the Point, Lancashire County Cricket Ground, Old Trafford. The RICS Awards showcase the most inspirational regional initiative and developments in land, property, construction and the environment and this year received the [...]
Care Home backs Cancer Research UK
The team at Longroyds & Pilling Care Home have been doing their bit to raise funds for and awareness of Cancer with one supervisor going the extra mile in aid of charity. Darren Waters, Team Supervisor, not only made the choice to have his head shaved, but also put his body on the line and [...]
30 new jobs for Northern Ireland care home
Amore Care, part of the Priory Group of Companies, is creating 30 new jobs as one of its nursing homes in Northern Ireland develops to reach full capacity. Carlingford Lodge , at Warrenpoint, is a purpose-built home providing a supportive and friendly environment for older people who require general or dementia nursing care It [...]
Help for Heroes and care home group benefit from rowing challenge
The rowers of the Thames River Challenge – a 6-day fundraiser for charity – crossed the finish line at Teddington Lock on Friday to the sound of a cheering crowd. Three Canadian style canoes that seat two people paddled 123 mile in aid of Help for Heroes and Barchester’s Charitable Foundation. The money raised by those taking [...]
Nominate now! Only 25 days left to enter Scotland’s Dementia Awards
Scotland’s Dementia Awards seek to celebrate creative approaches, innovation and best practice in all aspects of information, advice, care and support for people with dementia, their carers, partners and families. If you work within the health, social care or voluntary sectors and are involved in the support of people affected by dementia, or if you [...]
New Leeds unit to promote person-centred care and independence
Construction and property solutions firm Strategic Team Group has completed the £1.3m redevelopment of a former residential care home in Leeds, to become the city’s first intermediate care unit, providing 40 community intermediate care beds. The South Leeds Independence Centre is jointly commissioned by Leeds City Council and NHS Leeds South and East CCG, [...]
Care home revives memories with VE Day celebrations
WARTIME memories were revived when a New Forest care home marked the 68th anniversary of Victory in Europe (VE) Day. Colten Care’s Woodpeckers home in Brockenhurst was decked out with Union flags, bunting and 1940′s memorabilia for the event. Residents enjoyed an indoor ‘We’ll Meet Again’ street party while staff dressed in period [...]
Actor Anthony Head visits Bristol’s hospice
Actor Anthony Head and his partner Sarah Fisher paid a visit to a local hospice to see first-hand the work of the nurses, carers and specialists. Little Britain and Merlin star Anthony along with Sarah, who is an animal behaviourist, visited St Peter’s Hospice in Brentry after hearing about the work from the Head of [...]
Alzheimer’s Society responds to governments Care Bill
The governments Care Bill which was published yesterday outlines a range of issues including how to better integrate care, tackle high social care costs and how to drive up care standards. The Bill will create a single law which replaces more than a dozen pieces of legislation. Alzheimer’s Society comment: ‘We all [...]
Priory Group continue to focus on delivering quality care
The Priory Group of Companies has appointed Sian Wicks as Director of Corporate Assurance and Chief Nursing Officer, further developing its focus on the delivery of high quality, safe services following the successful implementation of new and enhanced quality and compliance systems. Sian moves to this role from her current position as Director of Safety, [...]
Dorset care home nurse prepares for MoonWalk London
A DETERMINED Dorset nurse has pledged to continue ‘walking the walk’ to help combat breast cancer after taking part in this month’s MoonWalk London. Corrine Goldsmith praised friends and colleagues at Colten Care’s Fernhill dementia care home in Ferndown for sponsoring her to complete the 26-mile overnight power walk. More than 15,000 walkers – women [...]
Unemployed people take step towards career in care
A group of unemployed young people from Dundee and Perthshire have taken their first steps towards a permanent career in care this week. The 11 students, who are aged between 18 and 25, have started on a Get into Care Training programme run by youth charity The Prince’s Trust and Scotland’s largest independent care [...]
Castlebeck enter a period of exclusivity with potential purchaser
Following a marketing drive, a report by administrators has revealed they have now entered a period of exclusivity with a buyer looking to acquire the group’s business and assets, excluding book debts. Joint administrator Joseph McLean said: “The administrators are in advanced negotiations with a prospective purchaser and are very hopeful that there will be [...]
Care home Head Chef works alongside Raymond Blanc
A care home Head Chef was offered the chance to exercise his culinary skills at Le Manoir – Raymond Blanc’s two-Michelin starred restaurant in Oxfordshire. Mervyn Knights, Head Chef at Queens Court, in Wimbledon is an accomplished chef working for Barchester Healthcare. Mervyn had the opportunity to work with the team at Le Manoir and [...]
£55,000 raised for Hendon Dementia Day Care Centre and Alzheimer’s Society
ADGS golf event raises £55,000 for Jewish Care’s work for people with dementia Actress, Linda Bellingham, was the special guest at the ADGS golf day which was held at Dyrham Park Golf Club in Hertfordshire on 8th May. The event raised £55,000 for Jewish Care’s Sam Beckman Dementia Day Care Centre in Hendon, and the [...]
Santander funds acquisition of Sheffield care home
An underperforming Sheffield care home has been brought by another Care Home Operator within Sheffield City, Country Court Care acquired Norwood Grange and celebrated the occasion with the Lord Mayor at a recent event at Norwood Grange to mark the completion of some of the improvements. Country Court Care has already improved the quality of [...]
Bike saddle replaces care home comfortable seating to raise money for Yorkshire Air Ambulance
The Dewsbury based specialist care sector furniture manufacturer Shackletons raised over three thousand pounds pedalling 240 miles across Yorkshire during the Pedalling for Pounds charity event this Bank Holiday weekend. The dedicated team of keen cyclists, called the Clean Shaven Bikers, included Shackletons employees and a few dedicated health care industry professionals. Starting on the [...]
Three year study aims for better healthcare for care homes
Improving the delivery of existing NHS services to care homes is the focus of a new collaborative project led by researchers at the University of Hertfordshire and funded by the National Institute for Health Research Health Services and Delivery Research (HS&DR) Programme. The three year study will look at the key features of existing [...]
Former British ski ace signs up for London 2 Brighton challenge in aid of Anorexia and Bulimia Care
Former British Alpine champ turned Ski Sunday pundit Konrad Bartelski will join competitors lining up later this month for London 2 Brighton challenge to raise money for national charity Anorexia and Bulimia Care (ABC). The fundraising event which has attracted more than 300 charities will take runners, joggers and walkers on a 100km trek across Southern England on [...]
Ain’t it awful? Living with dementia
In this brief series of columns Trevor Mumby outlines the ways in which we mis-communicate and shows effective communication methods for working with people, especially the elderly and those experiencing dementia. Much of what he writes could equally apply to all of us! In the third of his articles on miscommunication, Trevor Mumby explores his second [...]
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