Live in care at Home – Elderly home care blog

In April of 2010 the Care Quality Commission or CQC introduced new regulations used to govern businesses that provide care to the elderly in their own home, as well as for care homes.
The regulations are essentially there to ensure standards of quality and safety and for each regulation, there is an associated outcome, and as the CQC [...]

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Let’s face it, given the choice, we would all prefer to live out our lives in the comfort of our own home.
Even the government has recognised this fact. In an interview with Sian Williams on BBC Breakfast Time on 30/9/09, the Prime Minister said: “institutional care” is where most people “least want to go”. He [...]

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The World Health Organisation (WHO) has advised that the Swine Flu pandemic is now imminent. In response, the WHO has raised their pandemic alert to level five, just short of a ‘full pandemic outbreak’.
Chief Medical Officer, Sir Liam Donaldson, said today that most people affected by the virus would recover and the government had [...]

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As you get older you may not feel as fit and healthy as you did a few years ago, but there are various ways to stay fit and healthy as you get older which not do require going for 10 mile jog!
Below are some small tips on how to age more healthily. Some of them [...]

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Stroke services are improving, but there are still some gaps in care, an audit of hospitals in England, Wales and Northern Ireland has shown.
The Royal College of Physicians quizzed 224 hospitals about their services.
The study, funded by the Healthcare Commission watchdog, found improvements, particularly in provision of clot-busting thrombolytic drugs.
But it concluded [...]

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A new vaccine has completely eliminated a type of breast cancer tumour in tests on mice, say researchers.
The vaccine targets breast cancer caused by an excess of a protein called HER2 – and even destroyed tumours resistant to current drugs.
The US team said it might also be used to prevent initial development of [...]

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Every cardiac rehabilitation service in the UK is understaffed, the British Heart Foundation has warned.
The programmes are reckoned to boost five-year survival rates by about 26% by giving medical and lifestyle advice.
But a national audit found that no service was meeting minimum staffing levels – and three out of five patients who need [...]

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Thousands of elderly people are having their life-savings, possessions and homes stolen by members of their own family, a charity has claimed.
The scale of the problem was “huge and terrifying” with cash and property worth tens of millions of pounds taken last year, Action on Elder Abuse said.
Solicitors say the rise in financial [...]

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More people than previously thought could be at higher risk of having a stroke caused by their antipsychotic drugs, say UK scientists.
Previous research suggested only some types of the drug increased the risk, particularly for people with dementia.
However a study published in the British Medical Journal says all forms of antipsychotics boost the [...]

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Gene therapy has the potential to restore hearing in mice, offering hope for humans too, US scientists suggest.
An Oregon team discovered gene transfer produced functioning hair cells that are essential for the inner ear to interpret sounds, Nature reports.
In people with normal hearing, cochlear hair cells convert sound into electrical signals, which are [...]

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