A care home manager has appeared before magistrates charged with neglecting an 87-year-old resident who later died in hospital. Catalina Ferchiu indicated that she would plead not guilty to the
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A US hedge fund has handed Britain’s biggest care homes operator Four Seasons a £40 million lifeline as it readies the group for a sale. The Press Association has learnt
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Your Action Plan is for managers or owners of care homes. It helps to build an understanding of person-centred care. You can identify and plan practical improvements that will make your home
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Dangerous signs of dehydration in elderly people are being missed by care home workers, experts say. Simple checks aimed at checking for the condition – such as sunken eyes, the
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A wealthy widow suffering from dementia should be given the chance to leave a care facility and be looked after at home, a judge has decided. The woman, who is
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Thousands more people will be offered blood pressure lowering drugs as part of a drive to prevent heart attacks and strokes. Draft guidelines published by the National Institute for Health
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The world’s leading experts on designing environments for people living with dementia are set to gather in Stirling, Scotland for a major event looking at the latest developments in the
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Hundreds of thousands of disabled pensioners will no longer have to undergo “unnecessary” repeat assessments for disability benefits, Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd is to announce. From the spring
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A judge has been asked to decide whether a wealthy widow who has dementia should be given the chance to leave a care facility and be looked after at home.
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An estimated 850,000 people in the UK have dementia, with most expected to go missing at least once Only a small proportion of cases of a person with dementia going
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