Share this…FacebookTwitterLinkedin One MILLION Jelly Drops This is the announcement recently posted on social media by Lewis Hornby the inventor …
Testing Times
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Attracting Young people into Care Work
Share this…FacebookTwitterLinkedin Attracting Young people into Care Work In the UK, young people are being targeted by the government in …
Social care crisis – Human rights issue
Share this…FacebookTwitterLinkedin Social Care Crisis – Human Rights Issue. Too Right it is! Source: Why the social care crisis is …
The social care resolution cannot wait
Share this…FacebookTwitterLinkedin The Social Care resolution cannot wait Source: 672 days later, the social care resolution cannot wait – Independent …
Long-term plan for NHS England ‘undeliverable’
Share this…FacebookTwitterLinkedinSource: Long-term plan for NHS England ‘undeliverable’ amid staffing crisis | Society | The Guardian Theresa May has said …
#CARE
Share this…FacebookTwitterLinkedin (Shared in it’s entirity to be saved for posterity) Screenwriter hopes new BBC production, called Care, will spark …
Four or more diseases
Share this…FacebookTwitterLinkedin Four or more diseases A study published today in Age and Ageing, the scientific journal of the British Geriatrics Society, reports …
We made the Huff
Share this…FacebookTwitterLinkedin We made the Huff! Not so much a useful blog post, more me saving this occasion to this …
Care Time Bomb
Share this…FacebookTwitterLinkedin Care Time Bomb True words from Alice Thomson of the Times. Time will indeed tell, and I agree …
Unclaimed Benefits
Share this…FacebookTwitterLinkedin Unclaimed Benefits There is no shame to claim – or is there? With alarming findings being reported in …
£7 billion annual deficit in elderly care
Share this…FacebookTwitterLinkedin £7 billion deficit in elderly care – a year ! I have been banging on about this for …
Bike not buggy
Share this…FacebookTwitterLinkedin Bike not Buggy Whilst they may not be Bradley Wiggins, have you noticed how some elderly people still …
Buurtzorg: Neighbourhood care that is going global
Share this…FacebookTwitterLinkedin Care Teams are the way forward The image above is one of my “Blue Sky Thinking” presentation slides, …
GP Shortage starts to bite.
Share this…FacebookTwitterLinkedin GP Shortage starts to bite. Patients will lose their “automatic right” to a same-day doctor’s appointment under new …
Diverse diets in care
Share this…FacebookTwitterLinkedin Diversity diets in Care Catering for special diets is an area of increasing concern in social care, but …
Football & Dementia
Share this…FacebookTwitterLinkedin Former Liverpool striker Ian St John calls on football’s leaders to look after former professionals who have dementia …
UK’s oldest care worker
Share this…FacebookTwitterLinkedin This is such an inspiring story and for once a postivie one too ! Source: ‘You’re never too …
More cuts to care
Share this…FacebookTwitterLinkedin Cuts, cuts and more cuts and a Government unable to solve the problem in the social care disaster. …
Caring for Mum and Dad
Share this…FacebookTwitterLinkedin Care crisis will require people to be as responsible for their parents as they are their children …
Waiting for God. “Warehousing”
Share this…FacebookTwitterLinkedin I saw this coming, just hoped it never would. I am greatly saddened at hout we as a …
‘Huge leap” prostate cancer
Share this…FacebookTwitterLinkedin A quarter of men “could be spared invasive prostate biopsies” if gland was scanned first. Source: ‘Huge …
Christmas with dementia
Share this…FacebookTwitterLinkedin Christmas for people with dementia. Christmas is not always the “the most wonderful time of the year” as …
Saga’s Rebrand
Share this…FacebookTwitterLinkedin Saga’s Rebrand I have just browsed through the first of the newly rebranded Saga’s. No longer the informative …
Pensioner Numbers
Share this…FacebookTwitterLinkedin With the Queen having just turned 90 did you know …. that the number of pensioners has …
Dementia-A true Story
Share this…FacebookTwitterLinkedin This is a post I shared way back in 2012. I would like to think that now people …
Wearitbeatitday
Share this…FacebookTwitterLinkedin Wearitbeatit day. Share your colour ( red ) and help raise funds and awareness for the British Heart Foundation. …
Benefits for wealthy pensioners in the UK
Share this…FacebookTwitterLinkedin Benefits for wealthy pensioners in the UK Do you think wealthy pensioners should receive the non – means …
Staying safe on mobility scooters.
Share this…FacebookTwitterLinkedin Staying safe on a mobility scooter Should mobility scooters users have compulsory driving lessons before being allowed on …
Undiagnosed Heart Problems
Share this…FacebookTwitterLinkedin Many elderly people are living with undiagnosed heart conditions. One in four people in their 80s are needlessly …
Help Following Hospital Discharge.
Share this…FacebookTwitterLinkedin Following hospital discharge the elderly are missing out Older people are missing out on help needed …
The Worlds Oldest Person
Share this…FacebookTwitterLinkedin Leandra Becerra, believed to be the world’s oldest living person, turned 127 on Sunday in Mexico. Leandra Becerra …
It’s never too late to stop smoking.
Share this…FacebookTwitterLinkedin People who give up cigarettes live longer than smokers – regardless of what age they were when they …
Aspirin versus Warfarin
Share this…FacebookTwitterLinkedin Asprin could be as effective as more expensive drugs for heart failure patients with a normal heart …
Men could be living as long as women
Share this…FacebookTwitterLinkedin It appears the gap between male and female life expectancy is closing and men could be living as …
The cost of diabetes
Share this…FacebookTwitterLinkedin The cost of diabetes is not only measured by those living with the disease but it also has …
Lonely lives of the elderly
Share this…FacebookTwitterLinkedin Lonely lives of the rural elderly The Daily Telegraph reported on the 22nd of July on the lonely lives …
Cholesterol lowering eye drops
Share this…FacebookTwitterLinkedin All our senses are important but having watched my mother in law and several of my clients …