Home Care News
Retired policeman voted top home care worker and praised by CQC
21 Dec 2015
A retired police sergeant who has found a new vocation providing home care for older people, has been voted a top UK care worker and praised by the chief inspector of adult social care at the Care Quality Commission. Keith.....
Alzheimer's charity launches arcade-style game to raise awareness of dementia
21 Dec 2015
Alzheimer’s Research UK has recently launched a cross-platform game designed to help people understand the biology of Alzheimer’s and other dementias. Amyloids – named after a harmful protein involved in.....
HenPower participants pen festive hit in celebration of another successful year of reducing loneliness
18 Dec 2015
People participating in an innovative hen keeping project designed to tackle loneliness in older people have lent their voices and talents to an original Christmas song. Older people’s charity Equal Arts.....
Health Secretary launches inquiry over woman 'bitten by a rat' in sheltered housing
18 Dec 2015
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt is launching an investigation into claims a bed-ridden 75-year-old woman was bitten by a rat in council-run sheltered housing. Patricia Hudson, who died three months after the.....
Ecotherapy such as indoor gardening creates positivity in cancer patients
17 Dec 2015
Low impact and cost effective ecotherapy activities, such as indoor gardening, can help instil feelings of positivity and control in cancer patients, according to research. The benefits of being outdoors.....
Government creates new nursing support role to deliver 'hands on compassionate care'
17 Dec 2015
Health Minister Ben Gummer has announced a plan to create a new nursing support role to bridge the gap between care workers with a care certificate and registered nurses. The nursing associate role could.....
Microscopic swimming devices could deliver drugs to targeted places in the human body
16 Dec 2015
A new method of guiding microscopic swimming devices could be used to deliver medication to a targeted location inside the body, according to new research. The study by engineers at the University of Sheffield.....
Women urged to talk about taboos such as the menopause and incontinence
15 Dec 2015
Women should talk about taboo subjects such as the menopause and incontinence, according to the chief medical officer. In her latest annual report, ‘Health of the 51%: women’, Chief Medical Officer (CMO).....
Care homes to host a happy Christmas for lonesome elderly
14 Dec 2015
Care homes are throwing open their doors to give lonely, older people in the local community a happy Christmas. Contrary to the nativity story of ‘No room at the inn’, The Beeches Care Home in Stockton-on-Tees,.....
London café to open its doors to the elderly on Christmas Day
11 Dec 2015
A North London cafe will open its doors on Christmas Day to provide free Christmas lunches to older people, who would otherwise spend the Day completely alone. The Haberdashery is situated on the High Street.....
Home visits continue despite care workers' houses flooding
11 Dec 2015
The Cumbrian floods have claimed the homes and personal possessions of care workers as well as the old and frail but that hasn’t stopped them making home visits. Flood victim Christine Lamb is one of three.....
Scientists discover molecule that could help to clear Alzheimer's brain proteins in mice
10 Dec 2015
Research has revealed that a new chemical could help to break down some forms of amyloid beta protein deposits in the brains of mice. Amyloid beta is a toxic molecule found to build up to form plaques in.....
Happy women do not live longer than those who are unhappy
10 Dec 2015
Women who live happy lives are no longer thought to live longer than those who are unhappy, a study published in The Lancet has revealed. The study of more than one million UK women, showed that happiness.....
Elderly occupied more than a third of England's hospital beds last winter
10 Dec 2015
Just 3.6 per cent of patients, most of them older and frail, took up more than a third of the bed capacity in England’s hospitals last year, the Nuffield Trust reveals today. The health charity's analysis.....
Care providers advised to start preparing for the new National Living Wage
09 Dec 2015
The Government is urging care providers along with other businesses in the UK to take simple steps now to prepare for the introduction of the new National Living Wage in April 2016. The new wage will become.....
Negative thoughts about ageing can trigger dementia
08 Dec 2015
People who think negatively about growing old are more likely to suffer brain changes that lead to Alzheimer’s disease, say academics at Yale. 'I think, therefore I am’ the famous words of Descartes, is born.....
Gogglebox stars join Age UK's campaign to combat rising loneliness at Christmas
07 Dec 2015
Gogglebox favourites June and Leon Bernicoff are starring in an Age UK advert to help combat loneliness during the festive season. It marks the next stage of the charity’s http://www.carehome.co.uk/news/article.cfm/id/1571993/Dame-Judy-Dench-backs-Age-UKs-campaign-to-prevent-heart-breaking-loneliness-at-Christmas|‘No.....
Memories of dead loved ones make elderly hate Christmas
07 Dec 2015
A quarter of people over the age of 65 hate Christmas because it reminds them of the loved ones who have passed away and relatives who will not visit them. According to a poll by Age UK of people aged over.....