Tag: Residential Care
Hampshire care home celebrates ‘Lady with the Lamp’
NURSES and residents at a Hampshire care home wound the clock back to remember the famous ‘Lady with the Lamp’, Florence Nightingale. Staff at Colten Care’s Woodpeckers home in Brockenhurst donned mid-19th century nurses’ uniforms in honour of the woman often cited as the founder of modern nursing. In one of the home’s lounges, they [...]
Excited Essex residents say goodbye to their old home and hello to the new
Residents at Care UK’s Halstead Lodge have just bid farewell to their old home and said hello to the new one they helped to design. Care UK made it a special priority to ensure that residents and their relatives were not only consulted thoroughly and sensitively, but also took an active part in helping to [...]
Sacha brings tears to their eyes
A nine-year-old schoolgirl brought tears to the eyes of Sanctuary Care home residents when she read them a poem penned in memory of her late grandmother. Hatfield Nursing Home in Tamblin Way invited local school children to send in poems, artwork and write songs about ‘someone special’ in their lives and held an awards [...]
GARDENING CLUB BLOSSOMING AT HUNTERCOMBE HALL
The recent completion of a charity funded gardening course has enabled the residents of Huntercombe Hall in Nuffield to start a weekly gardening club. ‘Thrive’ is a small national charity, founded in 1978, that uses gardening to change the lives of disabled people. The activities are varied but focus on championing the benefits of [...]
Colten Care unveils ‘much needed’ Hampshire dementia care home
THE FIRST residents have moved into a specialist £8 million dementia care home in Hampshire. Colten Care’s purpose-built St Catherines View home in Winchester offers leading-edge facilities to people with dementia living in five small house groups. It was officially opened by the Mayor of Winchester, Councillor Barry Lipscomb, at a launch for more [...]
Look At Taxation To Avoid Care Crunch
Care for our ageing population should be funded through taxation in a way that is inter-generationally fair with wealthier older people paying more, according to United for All Ages. A new paper, The Care Crunch, published today (14 May 2012) by the social enterprise proposes two ways this could be done. With the government [...]
20 Jobs Saved at Crediton Home’s for People with Learning/Physical Disabilities
The Chantry, a listed period town house close to the centre of Crediton, Devon and its smaller connected property, The Coach House, which together operate as Chantry Care Services Limited (in administration), have been sold to a Devon based home owner, safeguarding 20 jobs and the care of up to 16 people who have learning [...]
Landing A Dream Job In Care
A 22 year old woman has escaped the despair of the dole queue and landed her “dream job” with a care organisation. Shereen Rogers’s success is down to a Welsh Government-funded employment scheme – and the advice of her much loved grandmother who sadly died last year. ‘The Steps To Employment’ initiative is [...]
Colten Celebrates Opening of Leading-edge Dementia Care Home in Winchester
A leading-edge care home is opening in Winchester, significantly boosting the area’s capability to cope with the growing issue of dementia. Colten Care’s £8 million St Catherines View nursing home offers the latest in specialist care facilities to support and enable people living with the condition. The ethos of the 56-bed home is to retain [...]
Keeping Your Residents In Touch With Family & Friends
If you want to reduce your residents feeling of isolation and cut the costs of computing by thousands of pounds, the answer could well lay in the simplicity HOMEKEY. Launched yesterday, the HOMEKEY is a memory stick which transforms PC’s for less than £70, making them so easy to use that the system can [...]
Bupa Care Homes responds to the LGA letter to the Prime Minister today on social care funding
Mark Ellerby, Managing Director, Bupa Care Services, said: “Council chiefs are right to call on political parties to work together to plug the funding shortfall facing the social care sector. If the Government does not allocate additional money alongside the upcoming White Paper next month, thousands of frail and elderly people will be left isolated [...]
June makes long and poignant trip to scatter ashes in Conwy
June Hughes, a Rectory House resident recently undertook a long and poignant journey to North Wales in fulfilling a long-held promise that she made to her late husband. June lost her husband, Elwyn, whilst living together at Rectory House in Sompting. After attending the funeral with her family and a number of the staff members, [...]
Caring residents build home for wildlife
Residents in Bupa care homes across the UK are taking a walk on the wildside in a bid to attract more wildlife into care home grounds and gardens. Bupa’s Wildlife Week (7 – 13 May) will see staff and residents enjoying a week of special activities, focusing on helping boost the house sparrow population. [...]
Prince Charles Opens Award Winning Care Home
A Pinders Healthcare Awards winner 2012 for the Best Redevelopment Project (Large) Nightingale House-The Wohl Building was opened on 6th July 2011 by Prince Charles. The stunning contemporary architecture and interiors were designed by Scurr Architects and provide a superb environment for the residents and staff. The Wohl Building is a [...]
Apprenticeship Numbers in Social Care Continue To Increase
Apprenticeship numbers in social care continue to increase. The total number of starts on the joint health and social care framework is 52,541. The majority of these 50,472, are in social care. Social care employers recognise the benefits of supporting their staff through Apprenticeships. An Apprenticeship is a work-based training programme which leads to [...]
Cheshire care home marketed for sale by Christie + Co
Christie + Co is marketing for sale The Croft Care Home in Whalley, Cheshire on behalf of the administrators at Zolfo Cooper LLP. Located in the delightful RibbleValley, The Croft is registered to care for 26 elderly service users. Prior to its administration it enjoyed an excellent reputation and high level of performance for a [...]
PERSISTENCE PAYS OFF FOR BYKER JOBSEEKER
The persistence of a 20-year-old man from Newcastle, who has applied for more than a 1,000 jobs since leaving school, has finally paid off. Wesley McGinn, who lives in Byker, has just started working for Care UK, which provides care services throughout the region in the health, residential, community and mental health sectors. Now a [...]
Sir David Frost presents Pinders Healthcare Design Awards 2012
The sun once again came out on cue to welcome a sell-out crowd to Lords Cricket ground for the 2012 Pinders Healthcare Design. As well as being a showcase for the very best in the design of care homes and independent living housing, the ‘Pinders’ has always been a fun day out and this [...]
Discover CQC Updates and Innovative Suppliers at Care Roadshow Gateshead
Now is your chance to access educational seminars and to network with leading care suppliers and industry experts by registering for Care Roadshow Gateshead. The free event is to be held at The Lancastrian Suite on Tuesday 22nd May. The roadshow is your chance to source leading products tailored to your care home and [...]
Ricky Gervais Comments On The Way We treat Our Elderly
”No one cares about old people in this country. There is a sort of army of youth but getting old is the one thing that will happen to everyone” commented Ricky Gervais. Discussing the research he did to write his new comedy ‘Derek‘ in which he plays a carer in a residential care home, gave him [...]
New Chief Nursing Officer Faces Huge Challenges Ahead Delivering Care
Commenting on the appointment of Jane Cummings as Chief Nursing Officer on the NHS Commissioning Board, Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Chief Executive & General Secretary, Dr Peter Carter, said: “We warmly welcome Jane Cummings into her new role as the Chief Nursing Officer on the NHS Commissioning Board. We have enjoyed an excellent relationship [...]
£800,000 Investment Creates 10 New Care Jobs In Norfolk
Healthcare Homes, an East Anglian-based residential and nursing care home provider, has officially launched a new 12-bedroom extension at Shipdham Manor residential home, located in the village of Shipdham, Norfolk. An opening ceremony was hosted by the Deputy Mayor of Dereham Cllr Linda Monument, with the assistance of Shipdham Manor resident Major Anthony Cox, 93, [...]
Achieving Great Respite Care
It is estimated that there are around six million people in the UK who are unpaid carers, looking after a partner, family member or friend due to disability, illness or age. These carers often have to fit their role around working, studying and other commitments. While this is hard enough, some people also do [...]
End Of Life Care At Kidderminster Home Is Gold Standard
A Kidderminster care home has won a national award for its gold standard of care and support for residents in their final days. It recognises the work of Westley Court at Cookley in helping residents continue to enjoy their lives where they wish until the end. The home in Austcliffe Lane achieved pass status as part [...]
Government must seize opportunity-a view on the care white paper from McCarthy & Stone
The forthcoming care white paper presents a unique opportunity to revolutionise adult social care in this country. The potential implementation of the Dilnot reforms, the introduction of personal budgets and a greater role for financial services through products like equity release are just some of the policies expected to appear in the white paper later [...]
Review of Healthcare Services For Care Home Residents Published
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has today published the results of a review of how the healthcare needs of care home residents are met. It addresses how older people and people with learning disabilities living in care homes access healthcare services, whether they have choice and control over their healthcare and whether they receive care [...]
Young Scarlett Joins Residents In Celebrating Life Down Under
AN AUSTRALIAN day at a Ferndown care home was made extra special when the 18 month old great grand-daughter of a resident flew in from Sydney. Scarlett Young, and her dad Chris, were guests of honour at the event held at Colten Care’s Amberwood House. Her great grandmother, Rose Hare, 98, is a resident at [...]
Further Pay Freeze on Nurses in Independent Nursing Homes
The English Community Care Association (ECCA), the leading representative charity for independent care providers, has commented on the fact that, yet again residents in nursing homes are to be subject to a freeze in the amount of money paid for their nursing care through the nursing care contribution from the NHS. Martin Green, Chief Executive [...]
Bupa Comments on Independent Commission on Dignity in Care for Older People.
Oliver Thomas, UK director, Bupa Care Homes, said: “This report recognises there is some great care being provided across the sector by thousands of dedicated staff who work extremely hard to ensure that dignity of all the older people in their care is their top priority. We welcome and support the Commission’s call for [...]
Gardens Designed With Dementia In Mind
Nightingale House Care Home for older Jewish people located in Wandsworth, London has recently added a new state of the art dementia wing to their existing home. Called the Wohl Wing, this new extension has incorporated much of today’s current thinking about dementia care for the elderly. As part of this forward-looking approach, the home [...]
A Heart Warming Story Which Begins With ABC
When Harry Hattermore experienced a stroke that left him unable to walk or eat solid food, he thought his life was over, but, thanks to his perseverance, the love of his family and the caring approach of the team at Care UK’s Little Holland Hall, he now has a new lease of life. Nursing home [...]
Easing Dementia Through Art
Elderly residents at a luxury care facility in Redcar have been rolling up their sleeves and getting messy in a bespoke arts and crafts session designed to ease the effects of dementia. Yew Tree Care Centre recently welcomed specialist creative practitioner, Claire Ford to host a workshop at the facility, as part of their commitment [...]
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 [...]
Finalists For Pinders Awards Announce Creation of 300 Jobs
A development and project management duo, formerly affiliated with a major care provider, has launched as an independent company. Having already secured contracts with other care providers, the move is set to bring work to other organisations across the country. NorthStar, working out of offices in Newcastle and South Oxfordshire, is confident that it will [...]
Avery Create 70 New Jobs In Hatfield
Acacia Mews Care Home is located on the site of the old Police Headquarters on St Albans Road East. The site was bought by UK care operator Avery Healthcare following the relocation of the Hatfield Police Station The luxury residential and dementia care home is a £3.5 million refurbishment project and was [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Protect The Money Of Dementia Sufferers
People with dementia are being cheated out of at least £100 million, the Alzheimer’s Society revealed. The charity estimates that up to 112,500 (15 per cent) people with dementia have been victims of financial abuse such as cold calling, scam mail, or mis-selling. Its new report ‘Short changed: Protecting people with dementia from [...]
Four Seasons Loans Restructure Goes Ahead
Four Seasons, now the UK’s largest independent care home operator are negotiating the restructure of their £780m debt and are hoping to raise £230m via their shareholders. Four Seasons Healthcare took 140 homes from ashes of Southern Cross to make them the largest provider of elderly care in the UK. The debt, [...]
Award Winning Care At Barchester
Founded in 1992 by Mike Parsons, Barchester Healthcare took only two years to win the Care Home Design Award, hailing the beginning of Barchester becomming one of the UK’s largest quality care providers. Constantly improving and updating their existing facilities is extremely important to Barchester and with fourteen new state of the art [...]
Record Number Of Adult Social Care Apprentices
Adult social care employers are celebrating the achievements of a record number of apprentices during National Apprenticeship Week which kicks off this week. Last year the sector saw more than 40,000 new apprentices across England use the framework working towards qualifications that will boost their knowledge and skills to deliver high quality care. They [...]
Dignity Action Day Enjoyed In Poole
Staff and residents at Care UK’s award-winning Mitchell House nursing home have been raising awareness of dignity and enjoying some of their favourite pastimes with friends in the community to celebrate national Dignity Action Day. National Dignity Action Day, held on Wednesday 1st February, aims to ensure people in care are treated [...]
The NACC Ensure Dignity Through Mealtimes
AFTER A FULL DAY OF ACTIVITIES IN SUPPORT OF DIGNITY IN CARE DAY THE NACC ANNOUNCE A NEW PUBLICATION THAT WILL ENSURE DIGNITY THROUGH MEALTIMES Dignity Action Day spotlights the importance of continually upholding the dignity of people receiving care. The new publication from the National Association of Care Catering (NACC) – How [...]
Alzheimer’s Hallmark Could Affect Brain Function Of Healthy Adults
High levels of the protein amyloid beta in the brain – a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease – could also be associated with the memory and mental function of healthy adults according to a study published in Neurology today (Wednesday 1 February 2012). Scientists from the University of Texas took brain scans of 137 [...]
Royal College Of Psychiatrists Clarifies Its Position
The Royal College of Psychiatrists has clarified its position on the Health and Social Care Bill in a new statement published today. The College believes the Bill is fundamentally flawed and will not improve the health and care of people with mental illness. The College is therefore not able to support the Bill as it [...]
Well-Scrubbed Grub Award For South Shields
A South Shields residential care home has won an award from South Tyneside Council for its excellent standards in food hygiene. Care UK’s Cheviot Court, in Horsley Hill Square, is home to 73 older people with a range of needs, including dementia, and on Monday (30th January 2012) manager Louise Damms was presented with [...]
A Vocation for Care
‘Putting people first and ensuring they have a good quality of life’ is the key to a successful career in the care sector, says Mark Birchenough, the new manager of The Oakes in Huddersfield. Celebrating 24 years in the care sector, much of which has been with Meridian Healthcare, Mark will start his [...]
Lord-Lieutenant Presides Over Official Opening
Lord-Lieutenant of Greater Manchester Mr Warren J Smith presided over official opening of The Millbrook care centre in the conservation area of Millbrook in Tameside. Meridian Healthcare’s new £3.8m care centre in Millbrook, Stalybridge is now open. Official guests of honour at the event were HM Lord-Lieutenant Mr Warren Smith and Mayor of Tameside, Cllr Susan [...]
