Wristbands for people with dementia
Wristbands for people with dementia. Help to keep them safe and visible.
#CARE
(Shared in it’s entirity to be saved for posterity) Screenwriter hopes new BBC production, called Care, will spark debate on …
Jelly Drops
Jelly Drops-What a difference a Blogger makes! You can still be part of this amazing journey and donate. Not being …
Blood in your Pee
Blood in your Pee, Look in the pan when you Wee. Around 19,100 people in England are diagnosed with bladder or …
Invisible
Invisible This is a piece I wrote about loneliness. You are not blind, you can see, you have no …
Keeping elderly people well in a heatwave
Keeping elderly people safe in a heatwave Close the curtains or pull down blinds to prevent direct sunlight entering rooms …
The Weekly Raid
The Weekly Raid The Weekly Raid may share its title with a sci-fi cartoon publication, but this magazine is freely …
Moving Together Devon
Moving Together Devon For many elderly people the thought of moving home makes them anxious, not wanting to leave …
Sorry Blog
I am sorry I love my blog with my heart and soul and it pains me that at the moment …
Wheelchair walking aid
Wheelchair walking aid. As a bit of an ideas person, I love this. As you may know, I am lucky …
Happy Birthday Caron Cares
Happy 6th Birthday Caron Cares I nearly missed marking the 6th anniversary of my blog, it was only as I …
Hidden Disability Help
Hidden Disability Help Did you know that 49% of us fly abroad at least once a year? With the weather …
Care Share
CARE SHARE – The multi-organisational and societal approach to eldercare. I entered this competition to raise awareness and share …
Don’t miss cold payments
Don’t miss cold weather payments I read this today as the snow is falling heavily outside. For Devon to …
Us Ladies and Our Bras
Us ladies, and our Bras Us ladies tend to be rather attached to our bras especially as we get older …
Incontinence
“Taking the Pee” As this is my very special place, I am sharing my controversial article that is featuring in …
Meal Makers
Meal Makers – sharing food, reducing loneliness, reducing malnutrition How often do you cook more than you need? Do …
Adult Social Care Workforce
The Adult Social Care Workforce in England The Official report into the health of social care was published today and …
#metoo
#metoo -campaign to end incontinence product rationing in the UK Who will join me on a #metoo campaign to raise awareness of …
Simon Jersey
Simon Jersey Healthcare Attire Simon Jersey are one of the UK’s longest established and best-known work uniform providers.As someone who …
Pimp My Zimmer
Pimp My Zimmer “Pimp My Zimmer”, the scheme originating in an Essex care home in 2016 scheme has shown to …
Four or more diseases
Four or more diseases A study published today in Age and Ageing, the scientific journal of the British Geriatrics Society, reports that the …
Endorsed By Age UK
Endorsed by Age UK Praise indeed for my “Happy to Share” cards, Age UK have put them on their Facebook …
We made the Huff
We made the Huff! Not so much a useful blog post, more me saving this occasion to this depository. If …
Care Time Bomb
Care Time Bomb True words from Alice Thomson of the Times. Time will indeed tell, and I agree with her …
Visibags, safer to be seen.
Visibags make you safer to be seen Steve is a man after my own heart. I have long bemoaned the …
Put Your Phone Down
Put your phone down …..and start a conversation. Much as the internet and smartphones are amazing, helpful, informative etc.etc. more …
Care Vouchers
Care Vouchers Tax-free vouchers like those used by parents to pay for childcare should be offered to encourage people to …
Happy New Year
Happy New Year Whilst I am excited about the arrival of 2018, I am also mindful that a New Year …
What do you do? Dangerous to Drive.
What do you do? Dangerous to Drive. In the UK there are over one million drivers aged over 80, 100,000 …
Three blind (drunk) mice
This is a true Story – my Boxing day funny. I share this one each Boxing Day, until I find …
Happy Christmas
Wishing you a Happy Christmas. I hope you have the best Christmas you can.Thank you for all your supprt …
Hospital Bag
Pack your bag! Especially relevant at Christmas time……. Make sure you have a hospital bag packed for someone elderly …
Vet Vouchers
Vet Vouchers The ideal gift for someone elderly who has a pet. Ever struggled to buy an elderly relative, friend …
Communication sheets
“Lost for words” Easy to use communication sheets Imagine being trapped in your own mind, knowing what you want to …
A Caregivers Words.
A Caregivers words. – I saw this on Facebook and wanted to share it here. This is for all caregivers …
Keep warm, stay well
Stay warm, stay well Blimey it’s cold out there! Here are some quick tips to getting and staying warm. Plenty …
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, …
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 …
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 …