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TALENT CONTEST LIFTS SPIRITS AMID CORONAVIRUS CRISIS
Heathcotes Group, a specialist care provider, has been helping to keep its service users engaged during lockdown with a talent contest inviting their services to show off their creative abilities. ...
Behind the Growing Home Care Trend
Live-in care, where a professional carer lives with their client, is an increasingly popular alternative to care homes. To better understand why, Bluebird Care presents some stories from the people...
ROYAL APPOINTMENT FOR CAREGIVER
A caregiver from Home Instead Senior Care was given the opportunity of a lifetime to have a chat about her job with the future King of England. Senior caregiver, Suraya Alvi, from Home Instead...
NCF: "COVID-19 Testing Chaos Set to Continue for Social Care"
Despite the government’s efforts to develop a testing programme for social care, the testing arrangements remain chaotic, there is no reliable timescale for getting the test results and there...
NOMINATIONS NOW OPEN FOR THE NACC AWARDS 2020
The National Association of Care Catering (NACC) has launched the NACC Awards 2020. The prestigious awards welcome nominations from across the care catering sector to recognise and...
GOVERNMENT LAUNCHES COVID-19 CARE HOME SUPPORT PACKAGE
A new £600m Infection Control Fund has been introduced to tackle the spread of COVID-19 in care homes in addition to £3.2bn of financial support made available to local authorities to...
EXERCISE GOES DIGITAL FOR CARE VILLAGES’ OLDER RESIDENTS
Fitness instructors at care provider Belong have launched a YouTube channel to keep their clients and the nation’s older community healthy during the coronavirus lockdown. The Belong Active...
HEALTH AND WELLBEING STILL A PRIORITY DURING COVID CRISIS
The British Geriatrics Society has warned that the lockdown and social distancing measures, meant to protect vulnerable older people from COVID-19, have led to dangerously low levels of physical...
PLADIS LAUNCHES ‘LOVE LETTER’ DRIVE ON NATIONAL BISCUIT DAY
pladis, parent company of McVitie’s and Jacob’s, is aiming to combat loneliness and bring some happiness to care homes on National Biscuit Day (29th May) by delivering lockdown love...
GOVERNMENT LAUNCHES NEW PORTAL FOR CARE HOMES TO ARRANGE CV-19 TESTING
A new online portal that makes it easy for care homes to arrange deliveries of coronavirus test kits was launched yesterday. As the national testing capacity has increased, the government is...
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