Live in care at Home – Elderly home care blog

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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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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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 79-year-old man has died following a fall from a first floor window of the care home he had been living at.
The man, who had been a resident at Plas Rhosnesni in Wrexham, suffered head injuries in the fall on Sunday.
He was treated at Wrexham’s Maelor Hospital but died on Thursday. A post [...]

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An investigation into the watchdog that regulates care homes for the elderly has uncovered concerns that inspections are not being carried out often enough.
A questionnaire of staff from the Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI) also raised worries that residents are at greater risk.
The questionnaire was organised by BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. [...]

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In the latest in a series looking at care of the elderly in the UK, the Today programme examines the role of the watchdog which inspects care homes in England.
“It is a watchdog without any teeth or even a will to act.”
John Matthews’ condemnation of the Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI), which [...]

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Private care in your own home is so much more appealing that having to be moved to a care home
There is no doubt that once you get in to your later years things become more difficult and help is needed for some of the tasks that might ordinarily have been a lot easier a when [...]

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