Norfolk care homes launch community initiatives in an effort to tackle...
Two care homes in Norfolk have launched new services to encourage older members of the community to join their staff and residents for activities, entertainment and meals. Olive House in Newton Flotman...
View ArticleARCH: active residents in care homes
Too few care home residents get the chance to engage regularly in meaningful activity, yet it can have a powerful impact on wellbeing. Julia Wood, Liezl Mari Anderson and Raymond Smith look at how an...
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YOPEY founder to receive MBE
The former national newspaper journalist who runs ‘YOPEY Befriender’ – a scheme that recruits young people to volunteer in care homes – was made an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours on June 17. Tony...
View ArticleCambridge care home hosts fall prevention classes
Staff at Home Close residential care home in Fulbourn near Cambridge are helping residents and local community members to stay physically strong in an effort to stop them coming to harm through falls....
View ArticlePerthshire care home residents learning French to help tackle dementia
Balhousie Ruthven Towers care home in Auchterader has been working with social enterprise Lingo Flamingo to offer French classes to residents in a bid to help delay the symptoms of dementia. It is...
View ArticleMusic Mirrors reminiscence resource
Amy Semple and Heather Edwards report on Music Mirrors, which offers a low cost, digitally portable reminiscence resource for gathering musical memories in one place Vol 25 No 4 Page 14
View ArticleA poet’s stories
It is 20 years since John Killick published his first book of poems inspired by conversations with people with dementia. Recently, he has been looking back on these formative experiences and he shares...
View ArticleFindings: one social hour a week in dementia care improves lives and saves money
Person-centred activities combined with just one hour a week of social interaction can improve quality of life and reduce agitation for people with dementia living in care homes, while saving money....
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Children’s nursery opens on care home campus
South London nursery Apples and Honey Nightingale has opened its doors to its first intake of children on-site at Nightingale House care home in South London. Intergenerational learning at Nightingale...
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Care professionals: masters of the bottom-up solution
‘Pioneers of social care’ was how Dr Claire Royston described the care professionals who attended the Best Practice conference in Birmingham on September 20. Dr Claire Royston Organised by Caring Times...
View ArticleTackling loneliness
Caring Times, October 2017 Two care homes in Norfolk have launched new services to encourage older members of the community to join their staff and residents for activities, entertainment and meals....
View ArticleEvents celebrated dementia-friendly cinema
Cinemas across the UK recognised World Alzheimer’s Month in September with a series of dementia-friendly film events. The BFI Film Audience Network and venue partners have made film accessible...
View ArticleCare home hosts ‘Dance for Parkinson’s’
Home Meadow care home in Toft near Cambridge has launched ‘Dance for Parkinson’s’ classes in an effort to provide a new form of exercise for people living with the condition. The home, part of the...
View ArticleFindings: one social hour a week in dementia care improves lives and saves money
Person-centred activities combined with just one hour a week of social interaction can improve quality of life and reduce agitation for people with dementia living in care homes, while saving money....
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Sponsored silence is golden for ‘quiet achiever’ Deb Pritchard
Caring Times, July/August 2017 No comment: a sponsored silence by Ha;ton View care worker deborah Pritchard raised £289 towards a sensory garden. Talkative Deborah Pritchard took on a sponsored...
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Stimulating activities promote brain health
A care provider in Wales says it encourages its service users to engage in activities such as learning an instrument or gardening. Abacare carer Wayne Humphreys and service user Gary Hughes use a...
View ArticleNorfolk care homes launch community initiatives in an effort to tackle...
Two care homes in Norfolk have launched new services to encourage older members of the community to join their staff and residents for activities, entertainment and meals. Olive House in Newton Flotman...
View ArticleARCH: active residents in care homes
Too few care home residents get the chance to engage regularly in meaningful activity, yet it can have a powerful impact on wellbeing. Julia Wood, Liezl Mari Anderson and Raymond Smith look at how an...
View ArticleOomph!: from care homes into the community
With £915k National Lottery Funding from Sport England, Oomph! aims to get 27,000 adults doing regular exercise within two years. Oomph! Wellness, a social enterprise dedicated to enhancing the...
View ArticleMandale House gears-up to help homeless people
Caring Times, March 2018 A ‘pop-up’ soup kitchen in a Teesside care home opened for one day in February to serve hot food and drinks to homeless people. Mandale House in Thornaby, opened the kitchen...
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