Care
How can you find helpful, reliable and appropriate care for your parent, wherever they choose to live?
Visiting care homes in England from April 2022
Here’s a summary of the current guidance to care homes on visiting arrangement in England, applicable from 4 April 2022. The full text can be found in the ‘Covid-19 supplement to the infection prevention and control resource for adult social care’ published on 31 March. It’s worth checking this if you have a problem with […]
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How to convince elderly loved ones to receive support
Collaborative Post Not every older person is open to receiving support at first. If your more senior relatives are expressing similar sentiments, then it can seem like attempting to persuade them otherwise is futile. However, you can surely make progress here with the right words and approach. Precision is required for effective persuasion, so you […]
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Do people feel less isolated in housing with care and support?
With loneliness considered by many to be a plague of our times, and an ageing population in need of homes to suit their needs, a study into inclusive environments has highlighted some interesting points. As well as looking at who chooses to live in housing with care and support (HCS) and why, the team at […]
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Visiting care homes and other social care settings
In February 2022 much of the UK has started getting back to ‘normal’, but families of care home residents and people in other care homes settings are experiencing very different attitudes and actions about visiting their relatives. While many families are reportedly delighted to be visiting loved ones again as restrictions ease, others are still […]
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What is adult social care and who is it for?
Collaborative Post Adult social care is, pretty much as it sounds, a welfare system designed to look after adults who cannot look after themselves. This can be through physical disability, mental illness or special needs, or, simply, through ageing. What is adult social care? Adults who are unable to care for themselves qualify for adult […]
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What qualities should you look for in care staff?
Collaborative Post Whether you work in care home management or you’re looking for freelance carers to look after someone you know, finding the right staff is essential. Caring is a challenging yet rewarding profession, but you need the right qualities and traits to be effective in the job. Those who aren’t suited to the care […]
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Care home visiting January 2022
With restrictions being eased in some situations but maintained in others, it’s difficult to get to the facts of how care home visiting is now being controlled as we enter 2022 in the UK. Here are the latest guidelines that can help. It’s worth revisiting them from time to time or whenever you are concerned […]
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Key benefits of becoming a self-employed carer
Collaborative Post Working in care can be a wonderful and fulfilling job. Your time and effort can make a real difference to the lives of the people who need it most. As a career choice, your work will be varied and challenging – you can almost guarantee that no two shifts will be the same. […]
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Care home visiting Christmas 2021
After the many heartaches of Christmas 2020, families of relatives living in care homes will have been hoping for a more ‘normal’ approach to visiting this year. Sadly, with the incredibly rapid spread of the latest variant of Covid-19, care homes are taking action again to protect their residents. Reactions are varied amongst homes, with […]
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Not enough people to care
Care homes, care at home, the NHS – it seems that every organisation that could provide care for our older relatives and friends who need support don’t have the staff they need. Social care in the community England’s Care Quality Commission has warned of a ‘tsunami’ of people without the care they need this winter […]
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