Silly Season
Silly Season is here again When Christmas looms around the corner the whole of the blogosphere in the UK goes …
Unsafe at the wheel
Unsafe At the wheel. Following a conversation with someone concerned about her parents’ welfare, health and safety on many levels, …
Internet and homecare
How the internet is changing home care. The internet has never played such a large part in our society …
Budget Blues
Budget Blues “It was the night before the Budget, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not …
Walking Football
Walking Football We all know we should be doing 20 minutes aerobic exercise at least 3 times a week according …
Make-over
Make-over Today, the 20th of November 2017, marks the dawning of a new phase in this blog. Over five years …
Two minutes too many
Two minutes too many (A Rant) On a bright November morning, as the sun shone smiling through the fluffy winter clouds, I …
Do Doctors care about the elderly?
Do Doctors care about the elderly? I don’t want to be a skeptic and would like to believe all Doctors care for …
Dementia Friendly Society
Dementia Friendly Society When I first wrote this article in 2013, dementia was still a very misunderstood disease. I like …
Vascular Dementia
How does Vascular Dementia differ from Alzheimers? Vascular dementia is the second most common form of dementia after Alzheimer’s and …
Do technology and ageing mix ?
Do technology and ageing mix Growing old is going to be no different for the baby boomers, followed by my generation …
Calming activity for someone with dementia
Calming activity for someone with dementia I read about this idea and thought I would share it with you. …
Free Flu Jab
Free Flu jab – but not for all carers Having just had my 5th flu jab in as many years, …
More Gift Ideas
Christmas gift ideas for someone elderly or someone with dementia. The clock is ticking and now with less than 10 …
Charming!
Charming Whilst my blog may not be the most amazing, it is written with passion and consideration. You will therefore …
Care Workers Organisations
Care workers Organisation At long last a professional body for carers The National Association of Care and Support Workers The …
Caregiver health
Caregiver health Caregiver health is a topic dear to my heart so when Joe from Vive Health offered to share …
Priceless
Priceless Still going strong, my free to make at home dementia assistance cards. These personalised, award-winning cards help people with …
Sorry
I am Sorry I sometimes feel my little blog gets neglected. Yes,there are well over 800 articles here, plenty …
Gifts that keep giving
Gifts that keep giving I wrote a blog post back in 2013 about Alzheimers and weddings and whilst that was probably not …
Unclaimed Benefits
Unclaimed Benefits There is no shame to claim – or is there? With alarming findings being reported in the Independent …
£7 billion annual deficit in elderly care
£7 billion deficit in elderly care – a year ! I have been banging on about this for a few …
Insuring against old age
Insuring against old age! Once upon a time we used to provide for our non-working days with a pension. Many …
Street Wardens
Street Wardens for the elderly We all know we are an increasingly ageing society. We all know there are insufficient …
Maintaining Brain Health
Maintaining brain health for people with dementia Physical health, nutrition, mood . . . caregivers of aging parents with dementia …
Who cares for the carers?
About you carers? You care for a loved one, simply because you care for them or love them but who …
Screening for abdominal aortic aneurysms.
Screening for abdominal aortic aneurysms. In England, screening for AAA is offered to men during the year they turn 65. …
Top 10 UK Health Blog
It’s official Caron Cares is a Top 10 UK Health Blog I am incredibly pleased and slightly humbled to have …
The perfect care home
The Perfect Care Home. I have followed the work of Paul Burstow for some time now and this article mirrored …
A Soap Box and a Heavy Heart
A Heavy Heart and a Soap Box This day was a monumental day for all the wrong reasons seeing the …
Political Hats
Political Hats I wrote this before the General Election in June 2017. Better late than never to share …
Keeping Elderly People Safe in a Heatwave.
Heatwave Keeping Elderly people safe in a Heatwave. FREE ROOM THERMOMETERS AVAILABLE- keep an eye on the temperature. Summer has …
Protecting the elderly-scams
Scams and how to protect someone elderly With an estimated 50% of elderly people reportedly being targetted for scams, I …
Aspririn
Do you carry an aspirin with you at all times? No nor do I, however, it may be worth starting …
Arthritis Pain
Simple Tips For Rethinking Arthritis Pain This is a guest post from Joe Flemming, from Vive Health. Arthritis pain in …
Pride of Britain Award
OMG! I have been nominated!
Virtual Reality
Virtual Reality – can become your reality As someone who feels most tech led care is a huge “No/No” having …
Get outside
Get Outside Research finds care home design isn’t depressing – providing you can actually get outside With around 40% …
Cuts, cuts, and more cuts.
Cuts, cuts, and more cuts. Local authorities plan to find £824m of savings, meaning they will be spending £6bn less …
Arm Protectors
Arm Protectors for carers I caused an absolute hoo-hah the other week on social media when I shared the photo below …
Empathy Apathy
Empathy Apathy The recent revelations that Bupa, making £700 million a year profit from care homes are the perpetrators of …
Bike not buggy
Bike not Buggy Whilst they may not be Bradley Wiggins, have you noticed how some elderly people still cycle everywhere? …
Driving Miss Daisy
I was driving through Taunton in Somerset recently and saw a blue “Driving Miss Daisy” car for the first time. …
Help for self-funders
Care Co-operative helps self-funders This is a very interesting initiative for people self-funding care. This article was in the …
Social Care Alliance
The Social Care Alliance The election may be over but the politics is not. Social Care is a topical challenge, …
Carer’s Week
Carer’s week June 12-18th One week to draw attention to the amazing job carers do day in day out. Is …
Hydration causing confusion
Confusion in the elderly caused by dehydration Following on from my earlier article about encouraging elderly people to drink more …
Good hydration
Think Drink As the temperatures start to rise it becomes more and more important to check that our elderly …
Constipation
Constipation needn’t be a pain in the bum! This article has been kindly written for Caron Cares by Nutritionist …
Age Related Sarcoponia
Age Related Sarcopenia One in 20 older people and one in three who live in residential or nursing home may …
ooops!
OOops! As a blogger/writer I tell it like it is. No mincing my words, no apologies. I don’t make things …
Evicted
Evicted In old age, your home is your castle, safe as houses as the saying goes. Or so it should …
In praise of our NHS
In praise of our NHS As a health and social care blogger, I decided to put the NHS emergency services …
Mobility Scooters
Mobility Scooters I am the biggest advocate for keeping our elderly independent, however not at the cost of accident and …
The Election
The Election Here goes! I never used to think of myself as politically minded. One day I was with a …
Gifting Assets
Gifting Assets (Shared from the WHICH website and very important to read and know) The cost of care – …
Pharmacy 2 u
Pharmacy 2 U Are you busy caring for someone elderly and find getting to the pharmacy difficult. Does you local …
Battle Burnout
Battle Burnout More and more campaigners are finding themselves facing Battle Burnout. People like Jenny Moore who has fought for …
Buurtzorg: Neighbourhood care that is going global
Care Teams are the way forward The image above is one of my “Blue Sky Thinking” presentation slides, where …
Giving up Driving
Giving up driving Most of us rely on our cars and don’t want to think about the day we may …
High Blood Pressure
High Blood Pressure High Blood pressure increases your risk not only of a stroke or heart attack but also …
In praise of the NHS
In praise of the NHS Nowadays all we seem to hear about is how the NHS is failing our elderly, …
Stair lifts
Stairlifts change lives I was contacted by Jennifer Isles of Acorn Stair lifts with this case study proving what an …
Does exercise slow ageing
Does exercise slow ageing? We all know that exercise is good for controlling pain, weight, sleeping and just simply feeling …
Recognising elder abuse.
Recognising Elder Abuse Elder Abuse is not acceptable – Would you recognise some of the less obvious signs ? We all …
When should someone stop driving
When should someone stop driving? When do you think elderly people should stop driving? Should there be a stated age, …
Free First Aid Courses
NCC Home Learning are offering the public 1000 free courses in order to raise awareness of how to deal …
Social Care Alliance
Social Care Alliance Over the course of the past 5 years, I have found myself mutate from reporter, using Caron …
5th Birthday
HAPPY 5th BIRTHDAY TO CARON CARES Today I am celebrating a milestone. Caron Cares has reached it’s 5th Birthday. Most …
TIA’s
Transient Ischaemic Attacks – T.I.A’s A transient ischaemic attack (TIA) is in essence a mini stroke. It is caused by a …
People not Problems
“People, not Problems” As a blogger and social media nightmare of the eldercare sector, I see it as my duty …
GP Shortage starts to bite.
GP Shortage starts to bite. Patients will lose their “automatic right” to a same-day doctor’s appointment under new plans to …
GB Care Awards, Finals
GB Care Awards – National Finals Friday the 31st of March saw thousands of people who work in the social …
Tiredness
Tiredness in later life Many people say they feel they are slowing down as they get older. Even my …
Smart phone, smart ideas
Smart Phone, Smart Ideas The New amplicomms M9500 is the first Smartphone that turns into a remotely controlled device so …
In praise of excellence
Manchester care-home judged one of the very best in the country Dystlegh Grange receives “Outstanding” rating from C.Q.C. Care Home …
Speech loss
Speech loss For someone who is rarely short of words, the prospect of not being able to effectively communicate would …
Who to inform of a death
Who do you tell in the event of a death? You have just lost a loved one and your …
Telecare, problem or solution?
This is what I never want to see – care home residents – monitored on screens from behind a desk …
Excellent Care
Excellent Care needs to be applauded Carole Anne Langmead, from Barnstaple, in Devon, is a Health & Social Care …
Mother’s Day, when Mum has passed
Making Mother’s Day less painful if you no longer have your Mum with you. Thoughtful and sensitive advice from Cruse. …
Marmalade
Loneliness is bad for your health – Fact. I have just stumbled across the wonderful work of Amy Perrin who …
Over Prescribing
Over prescribing for the elderly is dangerous Having visited my doctors recently and jokingly been told they just “give you …
Equity Release & State Benefits
Equity Release and State Benefits More and more people are choosing to stay in their own homes and pay for …
White Coat Syndrome
White Coat Syndrome Have you heard of this syndrome? Until yesterday I hadn’t, so I decided I had better write …
Planning ahead
Planning Ahead – Why local planners need to speak to the elderly. Local planners need to consult with the elderly …
The Big Knit
The Big Knit – Fundraising for Age UK. The Big Knit, how have I missed writing about this for so …
Point to Sheets
Point to Sheets! I love what I do with such a passion. I write here on my blog …
Diverse diets in care
Diversity diets in Care Catering for special diets is an area of increasing concern in social care, but some charities …
NHS Continuing Care
NHS continuing healthcare This is an incredible minefield of postcode lottery, form filling and a little bit of bureaucracy thrown …
Erectile dysfunction
Let’s talk about Erectile Dysfunction! That’s part of the problem, isn’t it? No-one does want to talk about erectile dysfunction, …
Football & Dementia
Former Liverpool striker Ian St John calls on football’s leaders to look after former professionals who have dementia and Alzheimer’s …
Reflexology in homes
Gina Awad has recently been honoured at the Alzheimer’s Society National Dementia Friendly Awards with the accolade of “Dementia Champion …
PR
When I created Caron Cares, I needed to let people know about it. I lost track of the number …
Prostate Cancer
Prostate Cancer- What should you look out for gentlemen? (and your ladies too!) There are currently 36,000 men in the …
Carer Crisis
Self-employed and unregulated Builders, barmaids and bankrupt businessmen are jetting in as care workers for the elderly, amid a spiralling …
Clear on cancer & heart disease
Be Clear on Cancer and other conditions No-one likes to think about cancer and heart disease but early detection saves …
Happy Hearts
Happy Valentines Day – Look after your heart. Please watch this video and have the heart to share it today …
UK’s oldest care worker
This is such an inspiring story and for once a postivie one too ! Source: ‘You’re never too old to …
Spreading the word
My invitation to speak to academics and researchers! My blog is a resource but it is also a tool for …