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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Delegates at a recent Health and Care Conference held in Glasgow heard a call by the co-director of Birmingham University’s Health Services Management Centre for a radical overhaul of the funding of long-term care for the elderly.
In a workshop entitled “Who cares? Reforming Long-Term Care” Professor Jon Glasby said that the current system placed an [...]

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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 we get older it is a well known fact that our memories may not be as efficient as they once were so here are a few memory tips to help.
For some this may only be small things such as appointments but in other cases it can be worse, such as forgetting the faces of [...]

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The Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI) has been changed to the Care Quality Commission (CQC) as of 1 April 2009. The CQC is an amalgamation of the Healthcare Commission, the Mental Health Act Commission and the Commission for Social Care Inspection
The CQC is now the independent regulator of all health and adult social care [...]

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