Care Home
Helping you find the right care home and advice on key things you need to know when you move into a care home.
Home Support Administrator (16 hours)
Location: Westfield Lane, Hastings, England TN35 4SB Pay details:£15.80-£15.84 per hour Hours: 16 hours Part - time Closing date: 19/05/2025 Interview Date: Week Commencing 26 May 2025 How to Apply Email your CV and a cover letter outlining how you meet the...
Warmth of Care Resources
#WarmthOfCare – resources for keeping warm and looking after yourself in winter. Age UK- Keeping well this winter Tips on looking after your mental health, information on where to get support with your energy bills and advice on keeping warm in winter. Independent...
How to tell if your elderly relative needs more help
Many older people enjoy the comfort of being in their own home. However, sometimes it can become apparent to younger relatives that perhaps their older relative or friend is not coping as well at home as they once did. This can be especially true if your loved one is...
Can care home residents vote?
Of course! Living in a care home does not remove any of your civil rights, and the right to vote is included in that. In normal (pre-COVID) times, residents will receive all the help they may need to attend their local polling station and vote in person. While the...
Care home vs Nursing home – what is the difference?
There are a lot of different factors that decide whether an individual should move into a residential care home or a nursing home. In most cases, the care and/or nursing needs of the individual will have to be assessed before a decision is made- this will ensure that...
Looking at care options: timing is everything
Nobody wants to move into a care home or welcome carers into their own home. That is just the way it is! Therefore, we will all put off looking for care for as long as we can and hope the crisis never comes. Whereas this in some ways sensible, nobody should start care...
When is the right time to move into a care home?
When is a care home right for Mum? If there is one question care professional gets asked more often than any other question when a family visits a care home for the first time, it is: ‘When is a care home right for mum?’ or ‘How will I know it is the right time for my...
Designing a Room for the Elderly
For most of us we spend our lives seeing our bedrooms as a safe sanctuary - a place to relax, unwind and sleep. But, getting older or living with dementia can make the mundane much more challenging and turn those things we take for granted quite dangerous. If your...
Moving into a care home
Like many big changes in life, starting a new school or job, retiring, moving house, there is a sense of worry about the unknown. A care home move can in many cases be even more worrying. Like all of these other life changes, the better informed and prepared you are,...
Choosing the right care home
Just like choosing your first house, choosing a care home is an important decision and a difficult one. Like choosing a house sometimes it “just feels right”, this emotional connection is important and you should trust your instincts. But, it is better to combine...