Category: Care home news
ALPACA FUN FOR OAKDALE CARE HOME RESIDENTS
Residents at Oakdale care home in Poole enjoyed a visit from two special guests – Guinness and Greyfriars Rufus the alpacas. As part of a wellbeing session, Wendy Williams, of Alpaca...
HALLMARK CARE HOMES PARTNERS WITH MUSICA
Hallmark Care Homes has joined forces with Musica, a music and health social enterprise which helps to integrate music into the daily care of people living with dementia. From March onwards,...
HEATHCOTES APPOINTS DIRECTOR OF BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Care provider Heathcotes Group has appointed Natalia Lysiuk as Director of Business Development. Previously Head of Commissioning at Heathcotes, Natalia is now part of the senior leadership team...
‘MEMORIES AND MUSIC’ CLUB LAUNCHED TO TACKLE LONELINESS
Gracewell Healthcare’s Ascot home is hosting a free local community initiative to support people living with impaired memory. Gracewell of Ascot, which provides high-quality, personalised...![[L-R] Margaret Grunfeld, Beth Saffer and Saffy Mathews.](/images/jpg-1703-Morris-Minors.jpg "[L-R] Margaret Grunfeld, Beth Saffer and Saffy Mathews.")
MORRIS MINORS ROLL BACK THE YEARS AT BELONG
There’s not a vintage car in sight but other ‘Morris Minors’ are getting into gear at Didsbury care village Belong Morris Feinmann, where residents are enjoying fortnightly visits...
VIDA HEALTHCARE SECURES OUTSTANDING INDUSTRY RATING
Vida Hall, the first care home of Harrogate-based specialist dementia care provider Vida Healthcare, has secured a Care Quality Commission (CQC) ‘Outstanding’ rating for the second time...
CARE GROUP APPOINTS ‘PHOTOGRAPHER IN RESIDENCE’
A care operator has appointed its own ‘photographer in residence’ to capture memory-evoking images for the care home residents. Parklands Care Homes, which operates across Moray...
HAMBLE HEIGHTS CARE HOME APPOINTS NEW MANAGER
Encore Care Homes has appointed a new Care Home Manager, who brings over 35 years of healthcare management experience to the role. Prior to leading the Hamble Heights residential, nursing...
EX FOOTBALLER AND POLICE DOG HANDLER GETS BIRTHDAY SURPRISE
Staff at Coppice Lodge care home in Nottingham arranged a very special visit for resident Gordon Gally to mark his milestone 90th birthday. Gordon, who has lived at Coppice Lodge for one year,...
NEW CARE HOME FACILITY LAUNCHED TO REDUCE HOSPITAL STAYS
A new facility to rehabilitate people recently discharged from hospital has opened at Oake Meadows care home in Taunton. The Willows is a 15-bed reablement and physiotherapy wing, within Oake...
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