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…
Disabled children’s charity hands over successful equipment recycling and reselling scheme to mobility retailer
Newlife the Charity for Disabled Children has announced that Murrays Medical will take over the running of its successful specialist equipment recycling service, NewlifeAble, after…
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…
New £25 million veterans’ Buckinghamshire care home welcomes first resident
The Royal Star & Garter Home in High Wycombe has welcomed its first resident. David French was greeted by Home Manager Chelle Daly as he…
Innovative access and care solutions to be displayed at upcoming occupational therapy event
Supra UK WIWE product Supra UK will be showcasing its range of access and care solutions to occupational therapists (OTs) at the Occupational Therapy Adaptation…
Healthcare tech start-up raises over £5mil to build “digital hospital” for patients
Credit: Medbelle, a healthcare technology company based in London and Berlin, has raised more than £ million in Series A funding to build a cost-effective…
Proposed £25 million care village aims to cater for all elderly residents’ needs
Credit: Westerfield Care A multi-million-pound care village for elderly and disabled residents in Ipswich, Suffolk, could transform how residents are cared for by building a…
Major airline backs disabled entrepreneur invention to make aviation accessible for all
Twenty-five-year-old entrepreneur Josh Wintersgill, the founder of AbleMove, has unveiled a radical invention to help disabled people transfer safely to airline seats, only three months…
Failures in care home staff training lead to pensioner’s death who choked on a sandwich
Credit: Stamford Mercury A three-day inquest at the Cathedral Centre in Lincoln has found that a string of “inadequacies” at a Lincolnshire-based care home led…
The Royal Star & Garter Homes names floors after local heroes with new multi-million-pound care home opening
The four heroes The names of military heroes set to be immortalised at The Royal Star & Garter Home in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, have been…