Keeping residents with dementia connected

A lack of social contact has impacted care home residents with dementia. Deven Pamben finds out how providers have coped Four-fifths of care homes have...

Easing lockdown

Joanne Moseley, senior associate in the employment team at law firm Irwin Mitchell, advises providers to update their policies Lockdown measures have started to ease...

Local plans lack clarity over older people’s housing, research concludes

Half of councils lack clear policies for the provision of suitable housing for older people, research by property consultancy Knight Frank and law firm...

Funding provided after failures to meet Transforming Care targets

People with learning disabilities or autism will have their discharges from hospital accelerated with support from a £62m government grant. The community discharge fund will...

A heavy blow

Analysis by LaingBuisson chairman William Laing shows that 32,000 older care home residents in England died from Covid-19 and collateral damage by end June...

Concerns over care home safety, survey shows

Three-quarters of UK adults do not think it is safe to put a loved one in a care home, according to research from dementia...

Podcast: Adam Carter speaks to Gordon Hamilton

In this episode of The Wine Cellar Sessions, Carter Schwartz’s managing director Adam Carter talks to Gordon Hamilton, managing director of Alpha Helix Corporate...

McCarthy & Stone hit hard by general election and pandemic

Challenging trading conditions due to the general election and Covid-19  resulted in a 64% drop in revenue at developer and manager of retirement communities...

Reforming care and support

The sector must be kept high on the agenda, says Kathryn Smith, Social Care Institute for Excellence Since lockdown we’ve done a lot of work...

Video: Simon Parker speaks to Mark Walford

In this episode Simon Parker, founder of the care management consultancy SP&P, speaks to Mark Walford, founder and chief executive of TrustedCare. The business is...