A care home in Bellshill celebrated Halloween in style this year with a traditional, spooky-themed tea dance. Bupa’s Hatton Lea Care Home organised the dance for its residents on Wednesday 26 of October at Bellshill’s Imperial Social Club. Staff, residents and their relatives, along with residents from other local care homes, took to the floor dressed as witches and other classic, ... Read More »
Leading housing and care provider Bield are taking full advantage of advances in technology to create services that enable service-users to lead fuller, more flexible lives, while at the same time reducing the workload of care providers. ‘Sure Call’ is an automated daily well-being call service that arranges a telephone call every day or on specific days depending on the individual’s ... Read More »
A Glasgow care home has given invaluable training to parishioners and Sisters of a local church to help raise further awareness of dementia. Bupa’s Craigbank Care Home, on Saracen Street, ran a training session at its dementia cafe which was attended by the Sisters of the Church of St. Teresa of Lisieux, the local community and relatives of the home’s ... Read More »
An Edinburgh housing development has unveiled its brand new, modern and stylish lift, which will boost the independence of residents as well as the accessibility of the building. Blackwood’s Laura Fergusson Court, a sheltered housing development for those living with disabilities, held a special ribbon-cutting celebration to mark the occasion, and tenant Mike Cavanagh did the honours of declaring the ... Read More »
Bield, one of Scotland’s leading housing and care providers, has appointed a new Chair who has revealed her desire to keep the charity ‘caring, innovative and strong’ into the future. Susan Napier has a 37 year career working in the housing sector. Most recently as a freelance housing consultant and prior to that as Director of Business Development at Dunedin ... Read More »
Red carpet glamour has made an appearance at a Kirkintilloch retirement housing development as tenants and staff celebrated the people who have made an outstanding contribution to the development. The black-tie event took place at the development where HND Photography students from New College Lanarkshire, were out in force to capture the images of the award winners. Awards were presented ... Read More »
The family of a care home resident from Paisley has revealed his secret for reaching his 105th birthday – a regular dose of porridge. Former greyhound breeder and racer Neil McNeil, who has lived at Bupa’s Elderslie Care Home for three years, insists on a daily bowl of the traditional Scottish breakfast cereal, and will often request a second bowl ... Read More »
Age proved no barrier for residents at a Barrhead care home, when they took part in a public art trail around Paisley to “bag” as many pop up lion sculptures as possible. As part of Paisley’s bid for City of Culture 2021, 27 brightly decorated lions were scattered around the town and residents from Bupa’s Norwood Care Home set out ... Read More »
Tenants at a retirement housing development in Stirling have been keeping fit with a novel exercise programme that is making everyone sit up and take notice. The seated exercise class, at Bield’s Allan Park House, meets once a week and has been keeping tenants active and social for a year. Everyone at the development is encouraged to get involved, with ... Read More »
INVENTIVE housing and care leaders have scored a hi-tech hat trick – by creating a showstopping annual event to show how they are transforming lives. Blackwood has earned a reputation for its highly creative and engaging yearly showcases, which feature life-changing technology and innovative displays. Now, it has delivered again by focusing on the social aspect of its work – ... Read More »
New research from the MS Trust has revealed that 64 per cent of people living with MS in the UK live in an area where there aren’t enough MS nurses to provide vital care and support. Almost 1 in 4 people with MS live in areas where the nurses have twice the recommended caseload. The areas worst affected include North-West ... Read More »
A set of twins who have had very different lives have been brought back closely together – thanks to an Essex social care provider. Although the lives of Pav Hughes and her brother, Jags Kalsi, are worlds apart, they both have one thing in common – Outlook Care. Outlook Care provides support and care to people with a learning disability, ... Read More »
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