Tag: Assisted Living
Life Changing Results For Morris
An inspiring programme of support has led to life-changing results for a service user at CMG’s Avenue Road service in South Norwood, a supported living service for adults with learning difficulties. Morris Walters, 45, who has been living at Avenue Road for just over a year, has successfully gained employment, learnt new skills, and inspired [...]
Whether or not money is the route of all evil it is certainly essential for providing care and funding will therefore sit high on the discussion agenda at the upcoming Henry Stewart conference on ‘Latest Thinking, Developments and Values in the Nursing Homes, Care Homes and Assisted Living Markets’* on 29 February 2012. In this [...]
McCarthy & Stone Development In Cardiff
With over 30 years experience McCarthy & Stone is Britain’s leading retirement builder and offers a choice of different types of retirement developments that includes Retirement Living, Assisted Living and Tailored Care Living. While most of us would like to remain in our family home for as long as possible, as we get older, it [...]
Irene Returns to ‘Retirement Village’ Role After 15 Years
AFTER 15 years Irene Parker has come full circle – returning to the job she loved at Avonpark Village in Limpley Stoke, near Bath. Irene, appointed General Manager at the retirement village, said: “I’ve had a fabulous welcome and while the buildings haven’t changed considerably, the concept has.” Irene oversaw work to the final extension [...]
Past, Present and Future
“The future ain’t what it used to be” said Yogi Berra, you can’t predict the future from the past was the opinion of political theorist Edmund Burke while Bill Clinton said the future “is an opportunity”. Undaunted by all these observations Jon Chapman, Director of Pinders, will be examining future prospect for values in the [...]
Castlemead Secures Planning For New Care Home
Castlemead Care, part of the Castlemead Housing and Care Group, has been granted planning approval for a state of the art 50,000 sq. ft. facility in Bradford on Avon, near Bath. The £9 million development will be built on the former Berryfield House hospital site, just off Bath Road, and will comprise [...]
Seeking Location Times Three
The most famous phrase describing the three things that matter most in property investment is ‘location, location and location’. Peter Tanner, Managing Director of specialist town planning consultants Tanner& Tilley, will be driving this point home at the Henry Stewart Conference on 29 February*. He will be examining the importance of [...]
What makes a front door valuable?
Answer: because it’s your own. When it comes to assisted living most occupants are prepared to pay a premium for their own front door – be it to the street or to the common parts of a building. Your own front door plus communal facilities adds even more value say Tayo Bilewu, [...]
90 New Jobs To Be Created To Meet Demand For Retirement Living & Care In Oakham
Up to 90 new jobs could be created following the grant of outline planning permission for a new continuing care retirement community (CCRC) and a care home in Oakham, Rutland. Specialist healthcare and retirement living developer Larkpoint (www.larkpoint.co.uk), a joint venture between Nottingham based Charterpoint Developments and Bourne based Larkfleet Group, has [...]
Adding the X to Extra Care
A recent study by The International Longevity Centre examines the characteristics of Extra Care and whether this specialist retirement housing can be considered a “home for life”. The international Longevity Centre-UK is the leading think tank on longevity and demographic change. They develop ideas, undertake research and create a forum [...]
What’s Happening At European Care Group?
First impressions of European Care’s head office is a warm, friendly, multi cultural work force with a relaxed attitude; which is rather pleasing given the fact that European Care is the 5th largest provider of care in the UK. Its Friday lunch time and the traffic in London is as [...]
Longevity Drives Housing For Assisted Living
Nick Sanderson, Chairman of The Association of Retirement Village Operators, has no doubts about what will drive the market for retirement housing and assisted living for many decades to come “We live longer; most of us will need support for longer; and we increasingly want to live in pleasant surroundings [...]
Homes With Care To Resolve Long Term Care
Assisted Living – A Real Opportunity To Help Resolve Long Term Care Problems For The Elderly? The Care Home Sector The long term care sector is a very difficult one to be in. Even though, fundamentally, the demographics are in favour, the mechanics of the business is rife with [...]
£52 Million Project for Care Homes & Assisted Living Units in Upton
ELDERLY people who would normally be admitted to care homes could soon be looked after in specially built houses in the Prince Charles-designed village of Upton. Officials from Northamptonshire County Council are currently working on plans for a £52 million project to alter the way elderly people are looked after in the county. As part [...]
The Pinders Healthcare Design Awards 2011
An audience of over 550 packed into Lords Cricket Ground for the annual celebration of care home design. They gave a warm welcome to Sir Michael Parkinson, who presented the awards and talked passionately about his role as the Government’s Ambassador for Dignity for the Elderly. Sir Michael generously gave his time for free, [...]
