New guide launched to help OTs make decisions on provision of specialist equipment in care homes
Providing occupational therapists (OTs) with “clear-cut” guidance on the assessment and provision of specialist equipment in care homes, the Royal College of Occupational Therapists (RCOT)…
£4,000 grant to help care home provide minibus service for residents to get out and about
The Royal Star & Garter Home in Solihull, West Midlands, has won the highest grant available in a Tesco Bags of Help initiative. The charity…
London care home upgrades facilities with award-winning dementia tech
Coombe Hill Manor, in Kingston upon Thames, has installed its first interactive Magic Table alongside creating a sensory room to help residents living with dementia…
Care home service to embrace “cutting-edge” tech to transform the patient experience
Credit: Healthcare Business National care home group Kingsley Healthcare will launch a new service offering called Kingsley Home Care Services, offering patients hourly care and…
Carers praise effectiveness of lifting equipment through successful Wales Care Home Project
A partnership between Mangar Health and the Wales Care Home Project to help safeguard the lives of care home residents has seen an 80 percent…
Award-winning care homes show support for Dementia Action Week with Memory Walk and other activities
Residents from High Wycombe with staff during their Memory Walk Residents at The Royal Star & Garter Homes have taken part in Memory Walks as…
Shirley Ladies Circle raises over £11,000 for award-winning Birmingham care home
From left to right: Lee and Cheryl from The Royal Star & Garter Homes receive the cheque for £11, from Laura Rudge at a Shirley…
Hertfordshire care home fined £175,000 after a fire took two lives
Credit: BBC News After two pensioners died in a fire at a care home in 2017, the company which runs the care home has been…
Care home embraces pioneering tech to support residents with dementia
Credit: Hartlepool Mail / Stuart Boulton A Durham-based care home is using interactive technology to support the mental, physical and emotional wellbeing of residents with…
Accidental death after pensioner falls in care home and contracts chest infection, coroner finds
Credit: Lancashire Telegraph A new inquest has heard that a 96-year-old man died after falling at and fracturing his hip at the Andrews Court Care…