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Run rabbit run!
If you spotted a large group of rabbits circling Ninesprings last week then your eyes aren’t deceiving you. Taking inspiration from their pets at the care home, residents and staff at Grovelands came...
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London Marathon runners raise more than £9000 for disabled veterans
Pauline Shaw with Surbiton Residents Jean and Bert The London Marathon remains one of the biggest charity fundraising events in the UK and this year veterans’ charity The Royal Star & Garter Homes...
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Leeds primary school has a flourishing relationships with local care home
Resident Eamon McManon admiring his ‘David Hockney-style’ collage. A Leeds primary school has a flourishing relationships with Nesfield Lodge Care Home, as children join the home for a weekly HenPower...
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Animal therapy brings comfort to residents at Bexleyheath care home
Pets hold a special place in many people’s hearts and lives. For people who used to have regular contact with animals they can often miss this when moving into a care home if they are no longer able...
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Great British Bake Off finalist gives surprise baking lesson to Hallmark care...
Great British Bake Off finalist, Andrew Smyth surprised resident John Sprakes, 90 by visiting him at Kew House, Hallmark Care Homes’ facility in Wimbledon and arranging a private baking lesson. The...
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Care home makes Paul’s supercar dream come true
This year Stocks Hall, St Helen’s Care Home set themselves a goal of making dreams come true for the people living there. Car fanatic, Paul Shepherd, 43, who has lived at Stocks Hall, Dentons Green, St...
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Tewkesbury resident turns 108 years old in brighterkind care home
Resident Margaret Wilkin celebrated her 108th birthday, over the bank holiday weekend. Margaret, who resides at the brighterkind, Tewkesbury Fields care home, is the oldest female in Gloucestershire...
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Banbury care home resident celebrates birthday with a furry friend!
A popular Banbury care home resident has celebrated her 102nd birthday with family and friends at a special event held at Featherton House, which is part of Wren Retirement Living. Constance ‘Nancy’...
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Care home staff and residents bake off to raise funds for Help for Heroes
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA Staff, residents and friends of Holcroft Grange care home, in Culcheth, showed off their baking prowess and raised over £100 by holding a bake sale in support of Help For Heroes,...
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Sunrise of Eastbourne resident visits Flying Scotsman once again
Janice Patterson, an 89 year-old resident at Sunrise of Eastbourne care home, last week fulfilled her dream by visiting the record-breaking Flying Scotsman steam train once again. Having travelled on...
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Care home residents enjoy a day at the races
Barbara, a resident at the Yeovil care home, shared that she enjoyed attending Ladies Day at the races and hadn’t been able to go for quite a few years. Staff at Grovelands arranged to grant her wish...
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Country Court Care homes come together for Dementia Awareness Week
Homes across the Country Court Care Group united against dementia this Dementia Awareness Week, 14-20 May. Country Court Care have four care homes in Lincoln; residents and staff came together for a...
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Burscough care home hosts Family Fun Day
Live cabaret performances and stalls were among the attractions keeping guests entertained at a family fun day hosted by Stocks Hall Care Home in Burscough. Staff and people living at the care home...
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Chester care home resident showcases her artistic flair
A Sanctuary Care resident in Chester has been sharing her lifelong love of art at her very own weekly art club. 87-year-old resident Doreen Woolf from Upton Dene Residential and Nursing Home in...
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Brigg care home plans to celebrate Care Home Open Day!
Orchard Court Care Home, a residential home in Brigg is planning to hold a celebration on National Care Home Open Day on the 16th June 2017 Care Home Open Day is a UK wide initiative inviting care...
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Cambridgeshire care home residents reminisce over wedding memories
Residents at Home Close care home in Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire, have enjoyed an afternoon of reminiscing over their weddings and loved ones as part of national Dementia Awareness Week. The home, which...
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Tonbridge care home residents welcome a new kitten to their family
They may already have a coop full of chickens in the garden but residents of Barnes Lodge Residential Care Home recently welcomed a new pet to their family. Barney, named after the Tudeley Lane care...
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Care home residents joined in with the General Election
Residents at HC-One’s The Denby joined in with the General Election frenzy when they headed to their local polling station to cast their votes into the ballot box. Staff transported voters to Pie...
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Care home charges for care it could not prove it had provided
Worcestershire County Council has been criticised by the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman after a care home it contracted with charged a vulnerable dementia patient for care it could not...
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One of West Yorkshire’s longest married couples mark their platinum wedding...
One of Yorkshire’s longest married couples have marked their platinum wedding anniversary with a celebratory party at Czajka Care Group’s Beanlands Nursing Home in Cross Hills near Keighley. Alec and...
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