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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Is the cost of visiting care mounting up? Have you considered switching to live-in care?
With visiting care in many parts of England now costing £20 an hour during the week and £24 an hour at the weekend (and often up to £30 on Bank Holidays and at Christmas, New Year and Easter), then if a [...]

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I have been watching the series currently running on BBC TV about how the increasing problem of senile dementia is predominantly addressed in the UK
The series is described thus:
“Businessman Sir Gerry Robinson tries to improve three struggling care homes. Can Gerry change a culture of stagnant lounges, poor quality of life and a lack of [...]

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If you are looking for a live in care job in the UK and you have live in care experience of at least 12-months then Care at Home is looking to recruit carers.
In addition to having a years experience as a live-in carer, you must also have your basic skills for care training and have [...]

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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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It is not at all unusual for even the most hardened individuals to be overcome by the trauma of coping with a loved one who has Alzheimer’s Disease.
The upset displayed by John Suchet is a prima facie illustration – albeit a particularly harrowing one – of the feeling of desolation and isolationism that we as [...]

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Many people simply don’t realise that the nursing care provided in a patient’s own home is no different to that provided in residential nursing homes.
Indeed it is in the innocent absence of that knowledge that even in this day and age, some of the most well-meaning of relatives still sometimes feel constrained to persuade their [...]

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Living alone at any age is not nice and can be quite lonely and this is no different when you are elderly.
So if you are looking for companionship for the elderly and would like to have someone live with you then look for a companionship agency with a good reputation.
Care at home provides a 24-7 [...]

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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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10 good reason why you should choose care in your own home in preference to moving into a care home.

1. There’s No Place Like Home
As people get older, their home tends to become even more precious to them. Any move away from this familiar environment, for example a holiday in a hotel, or even a [...]

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