A new dawn in the fight against Alzheimer’s? Promising news in the fight against Alzheimer's disease: a new drug called Donanemab has shown to slow cognitive decline by 35% in late-stage trials, offering a potential new treatment for the condition. The drug met all goals of the trial and proved effective in slowing [...]
Cap on Social Care costs scrapped? Chancellor Jeremy Hunt said, in his Autumn Statement speech, there were "very difficult times ahead for people and that he must delay a cap on social care costs by two years” From October 2023, the government had planned to introduce a new £86,000 cap on the amount [...]
Legalising Visitation The Government is drawing up plans that will force care homes to allow visitors for residents. This measure is being proposed because, even though Covid visiting restrictions in England’s care homes ended on 7th July 2022, some care homes are still not allowing visitors, according to the campaign group, Rights for [...]
Your loved one, your rights, your choices? We issued the latest visiting guidance to our relatives, which also contained information around the wearing of masks. There’s been recent discussions in the media about care homes and whether visiting can go ahead, despite ongoing COVID-19 concerns. Will the Ferris wheel ever stop? 50 million [...]
Longevity and costs If families are to make good financial decisions for their loved one and their wider family, they need accurate data with which to base their judgements on. They will find data sadly lacking, out of date and sometimes misleading. But let us try and make sense of what is at our [...]
Local authority funded homes unsustainable - June 2022 Four Seasons Health Care Group owns 131 care homes and is selling 111 of these in England, Scotland and Jersey. Four Seasons' care homes in Northern Ireland are being sold as part of a separate deal, due to complete next month. The care homes up for [...]
Diminishing Care Services Last month’s Blog ‘Recruitment crises to last throughout the decade,’ highlighted the ever-worsening recruitment reality that social care providers have been facing for many years. Here we look at the consequences of this daily reality on the services, to the most vulnerable people living in our communities. The ADASS (Association of Directors [...]
Recruitment crises to last throughout the decade?Care workers have been leaving our profession in their droves because of low pay, enforced vaccination, feelings of being under-valued, unbearable pressures through COVID, mental health reasons brought on by the distress of the past 2 years and the need for a ‘normal’ life.Throughout 2021, some people working within [...]
Fundamental Human Rights - March 2022 Hale Place believes that face-to-face contact with loved ones, in care, is a fundamental human right and it is unforgivable that some providers continue to deny family members entry to their loved ones home. Shutting up shop, on an ongoing basis, to ‘safeguard’ residents and staff simply beggars [...]
Winston Churchill - February 2022 Many, including myself, regard Winston Churchill as the greatest leader of the 20th century because of his tremendous ability to inspire people; his relentless passion; his winning mentality and undoubted resolve to achieve his desired outcomes. If we aspire to embrace these virtues in everything we do we will [...]
