Care Homes

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) released their annual State of Care report for 2016/17 at the Care Show this week. The report confirms many aspects the care sector is well aware of but there are also...

The majority of care providers publish a newsletter that highlights events and projects going on in their care homes for that week/month/quarter. They make great reading for residents, and visitors to the homes...

The culinary offering of care providers often comes in for criticism by residents, family and the media, and often rightly so. In many instances, quality simply isn't delivered and residents have little choice over what they eat...

Every carer and clinician is well aware that alternating pressure air mattresses are vital for patients who are highly vulnerable to developing pressure ulcers. However, these mattresses do come with a number of challenges...

A robotic soft toy in the form of a baby seal named Paro is being used in a number care facilities across the world to encourage engagement in dementia patients. Paro is very life-like with moving features, soft fur and a weight of 3kg which makes him...

There's little better an indicator of a thriving care home than one whose beds are all occupied and potential new residents are being put on a waiting list. Care homes that run at capacity are assured of maximum revenue and optimum...

Residents at a care home in Toft, near Cambridge, are benefiting from regular visits by a lively group of local toddlers. The visits are part of the ‘Little Owls’ project run by local childminders...

An online care home bed booking system is transforming the bed booking process for care services, coordinators and users. The system is a software application called BedFinder and was developed to streamline care home bed booking...

A multi-million-pound Integrated Care Centre, the first of its kind in the UK, is beginning to take shape in the East Yorkshire city of Hull. The new centre will bring health and social care services, community services and service users together...

Architects and designers of dementia-friendly buildings in the UK are turning to virtual reality to give them a greater intelligence of how things are seen by people with dementia. Learn how it works and see the potential of VR here.

The ageing population in the UK is ever increasing and has been rising particularly sharply since 2010. The graph below shows that we have more people aged over 90 as a proportion of the total population than ever before...

'Flying' care visits are council-funded home visits for disabled people to give support with personal care (washing, dressing, eating) and are called 'flying' visits because they have just 15 minutes of time allocated to them...