Live in care at Home – Elderly home care blog

Is live in care too expensive and visiting care not enough?
This is the question we at Care at Home recently asked ourselves and, as a result decided to launch a new 5-day week live in care service. So effectively providing part-time live in care for only 5 days a week.
We receive many calls from people [...]

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A PIONEERING DVD aimed at raising awareness and promoting the benefits of Direct Payments to help people with disabilities, older people and their families has been officially launched.
Direct Payments is a government scheme that gives people money directly to arrange and buy their own care instead of receiving social services. This gives people greater [...]

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A campaign to raise awareness of Scotland’s National Care Standards was launched today.
As well as a television advert, the campaign will feature a touring theatre production which will visit day centres and care homes throughout Scotland.
Public Health Minister Shona Robison saw a preview of the Live Wire Theatre Group production during a visit to Dundee’s [...]

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Direct payments have allowed more service users to take control of the services they use by directly hiring their own personal assistants. The implications for users and PAs are enormous: both professionally and personally they will be working together very closely. But having a dichotomous relationship in such a confined environment can create problems that, [...]

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Workers at a closure-threatened Royal British Legion (RBL) care home in Powys have protested at the organisation’s London headquarters.
It came the day before an announcement on the future of Crosfield House in Rhayader – the only RBL home in Wales – is due on Friday.
The home is under threat because the council has [...]

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Dementia patients are being unfairly treated, as many are forced to pay for their care, according to campaigners.
An Alzheimer’s Society poll of 2,300 people in England found two thirds of patients paid towards care such as help with washing, eating and dressing.
The charity said this should be free as it was linked to [...]

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A year ago, 88-year-old Jean Lavender used to find walking any distance a struggle.
Now she is keen to get outside for a walk most days.
And she puts the transformation down to the most simple of medicines – water.
She is one of a group of residents at a care home in Suffolk who [...]

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What’s it like living in a care home for the elderly? One 70-year-old reports for the Today programme.
Click this link to listen to a report by the BBC

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A council in Hertfordshire has suspended contracts with Supporta Care and Care UK, the companies provided care for elderly and vulnerable people.
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The government plans to double the amount of respite care for people who look after frail and disabled relatives in England, the BBC has learned.
The announcement, expected later today, is part of a 10-year drive to improve the lives of the UK’s 6m carers.
According to the Department of Health an extra £150m will [...]

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