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A care assistant, is someone who works within social care, to provide care and support to those who need it; there are paid care roles, in different sectors of social care, including elderly and mental health. A carer and/or young carer, is where a person provides care for a family member or friend, without which they would not be able [...]

Dementia, according to the NHS, is a ‘syndrome’ associated with the decline of brain functioning through progressive conditions. It works by damaging brain cells in so messages cannot be sent to and from the brain efficiently, preventing normal body function.   Alzheimer’s Society states that roughly 850,000 people in the UK have dementia; 1 [...]

  The Luxury Care Home Guide UK by Knight Frank, for 2020 has very recently been released and they have listed the car omes and care villages that their panel of judges believe to be ‘luxury’, based on the categories ‘design and luxury’. The guide has been stated by Julian Evans, the Head of Healthcare [...]

PrimeLife has been announced as the new provider to run Solihull Council’s new dementia care home, due to open in Shirley this autumn. The 60-bed modern, purpose built care home, is under construction on land just off Tanworth Lane adjacent to a medical centre. It will meet the needs of the increasing number of older people in the borough, [...]