What is a degenerative illness?

What is a degenerative illness?

One thing that you will often hear about dementia is that it is a degenerative illness. In simple terms, this means that dementia continues to worsen with time. While this sounds scary, there are many ways of slowing down this process, meaning that a person living...
Dementia: is there a cure?

Dementia: is there a cure?

Current status Since dementia does not have one individual cause, it follows suit that there would not be one individual ‘cure’. As it stands, although research is progressing every day, there is no cure for dementia; rather there are medications that alleviate...
Lavender Fields Care Home celebrates ‘Good’ CQC rating

Lavender Fields Care Home celebrates ‘Good’ CQC rating

Lavender Fields, a Greensleeves Care home in Sevenoaks, has been rated ‘Good’ by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) in its inspection at the end of April. The inspection focused on five key areas integral to the running of the home, including whether the home is safe,...
De Lucy House donates scarves to local school

De Lucy House donates scarves to local school

The children of Roydon Primary School in Diss will be decked out in the finest scarves this autumn, thanks to the knitting club at De Lucy House care home. During the COVID-19 lockdown periods, many people took up new hobbies to fill their newfound time, as did the...
Greensleeves Care holds Festival of Thanks for Care Home Staff

Greensleeves Care holds Festival of Thanks for Care Home Staff

Greensleeves Care held a virtual ‘Festival of Thanks’ on Monday 26th April to recognise and celebrate team members and residents across all 24 care homes. What is usually an annual awards ceremony was this year re-imagined as the Festival of Thanks, whereby instead of...