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Keeping your care home hygienic

Keeping your care home hygienic: Making sure residents are healthy and happy 

Safe hygiene practices, infection control and health and wellbeing play a major…

 

Why is a Lasting Power Of Attorney so important?

Nicola Finbow, Head of Private Client at Clough & Willis Solicitors, discusses why…

 

Medical oxygen fires: how better safety can save lives

There is a need for more training and education around the risk of medical oxygen fires, explains Richard Radford, Managing Director of medical gas control specialist…

 

Specialist nursing care home to create jobs in Newcastle

Around 100 jobs are being created in Newcastle this September due to the launch of Tyne Grange, Exemplar Health Care’s newest specialist nursing care home in the…

 

New immigration rules threaten care homes with closure

A social care leader has warned that care homes and home care agencies in Wales will be put out of business as a result of the new immigration rules announced by the…

 

Beating the flu in care homes this winter 

Influenza (commonly known as the “flu”) season is in full swing. This usually brings a chorus of sniffs and sneezes as people across the UK battle through illness.…

 

Free online course on understanding and preventing the spread of coronavirus 

With 71,429 cases in 25 countries and sadly 1,775 deaths so far in 4 countries - 1,772 in China and one each in Japan, the Philippines and France - the novel…

 

Screening and Treating Malnutrition in Community Care Settings

Malnutrition is a major clinical and public health problem in the UK. It’s estimated that over 3 million people are malnourished, with 93% living in the community and…

 

Eyecare – we care!

If you are looking after elderly people in residential care, they may need assistance with mobility,…

 

Eating Disorders in the Elderly – Are we taking the threat seriously?

Challenged to conjure the image of a person with an eating disorder, who are you going to picture?
Someone female perhaps? Skeletal? And, most likely…an…

 

Borough Care Residents Explore Wonderland Festival

Residents from Borough Care’s Meadway Court in Bramhall recently…

 

Sunrise Senior Living UK and Gracewell Healthcare Celebrate Excellence

Sunrise Senior Living UK and Gracewell Healthcare have celebrated brilliance across the organisation, at…

 

What can Going Digital look like? 

This a question we are often asked at Care Vision and more so in the social sare industry. It is seen as…

 

How can we take action against dementia using technology?

In the UK, someone develops dementia every three minutes, and the Alzheimer’s Society estimates that the number of people living alone with the condition will double…

 

Care technology plays growing role in facilities for the elderly and infirm

Electronic systems are helping operators in the growing care homes sector to provide caring environments that are not only comfortable and friendly, but also safe,…

 

Bupa care home workers recruited via youth scheme

A group of young Bupa care home workers were recruited to the care sector via a scheme with the Prince's Trust and Barclays/ The next steps for Bupa's partnership…