care homes News

The negatives of moving into a residential home are often in the news but there is a positive side too. This helpful article highlights the benefits of communal living, with the added bonus of security, companionship and privacy.

Bupa Health Foundation and Alzheimer’s Australia announce the launch of 'BrainyApp' in the UK, a new app designed to monitor and improve the user's brain and heart health.

'Real Time' care home directory website www.keycaresolutions.co.uk launches the care home price match promise.

Epsom will soon be home to a state of the art private care community after the council gave the go-ahead to another Signature development.

Sheffield-based infection control specialists Cairn Technology are going through an exciting time of change. With new employees, new premises and a new website in the works, the company is expanding its operations in the care home sector.

The Rational SelfCooking Center simplifies fish cooking for care homes. It can pan-fry, poach, steam or bake – all at the touch of a button. The ‘continue’ function enables consistent bulk cooking.

Key Care Solutions is the leading 'real time' care home reference guide to over 22,000 care homes and adult day centres across Ireland and the UK. This website is unique in that it only displays care homes which have current room vacancies.

Bupa care homes residents celebrate the 2011 Cannes Film Festival

Bupa awarded ten free running places in the Bupa Junior Great Manchester Run to Bolton school children

Online care home directories help thousands of people a month to choose their care homes. By directing users to the best help and advice on the internet, and by giving them the unbiased information they need to make informed choices.

Bupa care homes are taking part in 'Community Crops' and growing their own fruit and veg

Bupa care homes have held Communi-tea Week celebrations to help tackle loneliness in older people

Yorkshire based Zest Care Systems releases a full care management software package to help optimise business processes within the care sector by relieving the pressures and demands of compliance and administration.

Care Home regulator moves away from star ratings, making it harder to spot the best care home for your relative. Care home comparison website, bestcarehome.co.uk continues to allow searches using star ratings.

Choosing the right care home is one of the most important decisions you can make for yourself or for loved ones, and it can be one of the most difficult.

Hi tech cooking equipment will transform catering in major new ‘extension’

Older people who require long-term care can fall frequently and up to 35% of these falls result in serious injury and around 8% in fractures. It is therefore important to have fall prevention strategies and interventions in place

Carehomejobs.com is due to launch in January 2010 with thousands of jobs for carers, managers and registered nurses in care homes across the UK.

Market analysts Laing & Buisson have released their care home market survey report for 2008/9. .....It's a tale of supply and demand, possibly leading to tough times ahead for the care home operators.

Kitchensafe will improve safety in domestic, care home and rented accommodation by saving lives and preventing serious damage to property

BOX telematics have launched a new product for the monitoring of water temperature that is a valuable part of a Legionella Control program. Totally wireless and with minimum installation, waterBOX provides regular updates on core water temperatures.

Bradford-based Wow! Lifestyle is celebrating becoming the first business in Britain to secure a trade distribution deal as agents for three of the world’s biggest bed brands.

M Garner Consulting, business improvement specialists, proudly launch a new website to critical acclaim. They offer business improvement services to small and medium businesses and local authorities, and are expanding their range of client services.

Scotland's care regulator has unveiled how it plans, over the next two years, to further push up standards of care in the 15,000 services it registers and inspects.

This exceptional new care home, in Shipton-under-Wychwood, in the Cotswolds, will provide high quality residential and nursing care to the elderly, including those individuals suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia illness.

This extraordinary new care home has been specifically designed to meet the needs of individuals suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia illness. Also providing general residential care it will therefore be a home for life.

Sunrise Senior Living officially opens Sunrise of Tettenhall, a new, high quality care home alternative in the leafy outskirts of Wolverhampton.