Care
How can you find helpful, reliable and appropriate care for your parent, wherever they choose to live?
Caring for Ageing Parents: What Families Need to Know About Care Options
Across the UK, many families – often adult children – are quietly taking on the full-time care of their ageing parents. New research from Noble Live-In Care highlights the huge personal cost this devotion can bring: exhaustion, poor mental health, financial strain, and carers feeling they must manage alone. Yet families do have options. Whether […]
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Ensuring Scotland’s care home residents stay connected
On 22 July 2025, Anne’s Law became legislation as part of the Care Reform (Scotland) Act 2025, ensuring people living in care homes can stay connected with their loved ones, even during exceptional circumstances such as infectious outbreaks. The next step is to develop the Regulations and Code of Practice, which will set out how the […]
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Make your voice heard as a carer – complete the UK State of Caring survey
Carers UK has launched this year’s State of Caring survey. The annual State of Caring survey is the most extensive survey into unpaid carers’ experiences in the UK. It is used as a vital source of evidence not only by Carers UK, but by many other organisations including Government, local authorities, health and social care services, […]
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CCTV in care home bedrooms in the UK – yes or no?
Moving to a care home can be a positive choice for those who are struggling to live independently at home. It can throw up worries for family and friends though. We are trusting an unknown organisation and its unfamiliar employees to care for our relative with compassion and dignity. Sometimes concerns arise about whether our […]
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The Importance Of Compassionate Senior Care
Collaborative Post There comes a time in everyone’s life when we start needing a little extra support, especially as we age. Roles begin to shift with children caring for their parents, returning the love and support they once received. Often, at this stage, senior care services come in to help with the transition, relieving families […]
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Building a care home as your next business venture
Collaborative Post Caring for the ageing population is more than a noble act, it can also be an important business opportunity. With an increasing need for quality care due to an ageing society, entering the care home industry may prove both financially rewarding and socially impactful. But what steps must be taken in order to […]
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Could Homesharing Help Your Loved One Live More Safely at Home?
A growing number of families are turning to homeshare arrangements as a way to help their older relatives feel safer, less lonely, and more supported at home – especially when dealing with challenges like dementia, mobility issues, or overnight security concerns. The Homeshare Report 2025 in the UK offers encouraging news for families caring for […]
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Staying Involved in a loved one’s care from afar
When a loved one starts receiving care, whether that’s occasional help at home or full time support, it’s natural to feel a little uncertain. You want to stay connected and make sure they’re safe, well and happy. But how do you do that without overwhelming them or creating unnecessary tension? The key lies in building […]
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John’s Campaign: supporting family and friends to provide care in hospitals and other care settings
The dementia support group John’s Campaign has recently had to change its website and email addresses to overcome what we’ll call technical difficulties with its web server provider. That’s a real nuisance for the group, but a good opportunity to remind carers about the purpose and activities of this UK-based organisation. What is John’s Campaign? […]
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What do you do when a care home closes?
It’s a nightmare situation. Your parent is settled in a care home when it’s suddenly announced that the home will be closing. You need to find somewhere else for them to live and be cared for well, away from the people and routines that they know, and often pretty quickly. The University of Birmingham has […]
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