Tag Archives: care homes

Why is the quality of UK care homes getting worse?

Why is the quality of UK care homes getting worse?

The proportion of care homes rated “inadequate” or “requires improvement” increased in one in five local authority areas in 2017. According to new analysis by Independent Age, the older people’s chari ...
Hunt: ‘we need to do better on social care’

Hunt: ‘we need to do better on social care’

On 20th March, 2018, the recently appointed Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, the Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP, made a speech that acknowledged the need ‘to do better on social care’. Social car ...
Invasion of the 4 year olds

Invasion of the 4 year olds

A recent two-part series on Channel 4 put to the test the old adage that there’s nothing like having children around to keep you young by seeing what happened when ten toddlers turned up to play at an ...
A letter from Victor Rones – Adult social care

A letter from Victor Rones – Adult social care

This Country needs good adult social care and it needs caring people in care homes or the person’s home with caring staff to be compassionate towards the elderly person and no abuse anywhere. There is ...