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107 year old care home resident says”I feel like a teenager on a good day”
Victoria and care coordinator Lorraine Abbeyfield Kent resident, Victoria Middlemiss may have turned 107 today, but she still likes to have a laugh with the staff at Rogers House residential home,...
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Care assistant helps resident get started on local competition
A Care Assistant at Fairway View care home in Bulwell was ecstatic to win a competition to design a Chinese Dragon, after teaming up with resident, Winnie Twells. Anita Bowling, who has worked at the...
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Coventry resident celebrates 104th birthday at Herald Lodge
Herald Lodge, which is operated by Ideal Carehomes, celebrated a milestone birthday for a special lady hosting an afternoon tea party in her honour. Mabel Williamson, who is one of Coventry’s oldest...
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Doting couple celebrate 71st Valentine’s Day
John and Edith MacKay, 96 an 94 celebrating their 91st Valentines day together. A Dundee couple are perfectly placed to give lessons in love for Valentine’s Day – because this year will be the 71st...
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Classic jukebox provides the sound of music at Shropshire care home
Enid Verdmore and Margaret Richardson with the new jukebox at Innage Grange. Residents at a Shropshire care home are being entertained by the sound of music thanks to a new arrival – an iconic...
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Salisbury care home residents raise £2,000 for children’s hospice
From left: Braemar Lodge Activity Organiser Sylvie Rodulson and Home Manager Alison Bremner; Naomi House ambassador Pauline Bailey; Braemar Lodge residents Ruby Cutler, Dorothy Noyce and Betty Winter;...
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Jewish Care resident in Barnet receives the French Legion of Honour medal
Earlier this month, Hyman Pittal proudly received his French Légion d’honneur medal, recently awarded by the French government has been awarding to D-Day veterans from many different countries, as a...
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‘The Cherries’ outshine trustees in The Fremantle Trust Indoor Carpet Bowls Cup
Now a staple on the care provider and charity’s calendar, The Indoor Carpet Bowls Cup run by The Fremantle Trust, came to a resounding close with The Cherries (Cherry Garth Care Home) team scooping the...
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Care comparison website shares analysis of families’ views of care from...
UK families say that care services for children and older people have got worse in the last five years. But they reserve their harshest criticism for care of older people, particularly home care...
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Valentine celebrations at Spalding care home
Valentine’s Day was celebrated with a fabulous tea party at St John’s Care Home. Residents at the Spalding Care Home had spent the week making decorations and heart-shaped bunting to decorate the...
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Romance in retirement at The Beeches Care Home
ELDERLY residents enjoyed romance in retirement at The Beeches Care Home in Stockton-on-Tees this Valentine’s Day. The home held a romantic supper for residents, who share almost 180 years of...
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Tonbridge care home resident celebrates her 100th birthday with family and...
One hundred year old Gladys Joyce, who has lived with The Abbeyfield Kent Society for 13 years, celebrated her centenary birthday surrounded by her friends at family at Barnes Lodge. Joined by...
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South Shields care home spreads some random acts of kindness
Kindness is contagious at Garden Hill Care Home, South Shields, where residents, staff members and visitors to the home have been spreading simple acts of kindness as part of a week long initiative to...
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Elderly Eastbourne resident reunited with her love of horses
Betty and Bailey Betty Burchett, an 88 year old Sunrise of Eastbourne resident, has had a life-long passion for horses, having owned, trained and loved them from a young age. Having been in low spirits...
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Care home group one of first in UK to serve up pureed food that looks like a...
Elderly residents at six care homes across Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire who have difficulty swallowing food are benefiting from an initiative aimed at encouraging them to eat more. People...
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Camden care home residents open their own art gallery following art classes
A group of residents at a Camden care home will display their handiwork from next Wednesday (8 March 2017) with the official opening of the Ash Court Art Gallery, following a series of art classes led...
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Cineworld Middlesbrough jogs memories for those living with dementia
TEESSIDE’s elderly enjoyed a dementia friendly screening of classic 1953 musical Calamity Jane at a Middlesbrough cinema. Cineworld Middlesbrough showed the film as part of the town’s growing...
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Care home residents take part in dementia research exhibited at FACT Liverpool
Residents and their families from Green Heys Care Home, in Liverpool, have participated in a pioneering artistic research project that explores the impact that touch can have in promoting stimulation...
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Pancake Day proves stacks of fun for Northfleet care home residents
Pancake Day certainly didn’t fall flat at Dene Holm Residential Care Home, with residents and staff getting involved with a pancake tossing tournament. Residents of the Northfleet care home enjoyed...
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Kingston Upon Thames care home residents knitting hats for premature babies
Keen knitters at Galsworthy House care home in Kingston Upon Thames are casting on to knit hats for premature babies at nearby Kingston Hospital. Activities co-ordinators Irene Giordano and Sue...
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