Abbotsford Nursing Home – Namaste Care
We’re delighted to share how Abbotsford Nursing Home has been delivering the Namaste Care programme,
We’re delighted to share how Abbotsford Nursing Home has been delivering the Namaste Care programme,
Today (21st June) is World Music Day – a time when across the globe, communities gather to celebrate the universal language of melody, rhythm, and song. When radio stations take advantage of the day to entice us to listen more and when a plethora of local events celebrate the day. I have
Advanced Notification of Upratings for 2025/26 for – Free Personal and Nursing Care Payments; Personal Expenses Allowance (PEA); Capital Limits; and Savings Disregards.
There has been a great deal of talk this past week about how important it is that we support and care for individuals as close to their home as possible, including yet again an emphasis on hospital at home – as well as an increased commitment to focussing on prevention
It isn’t often that there is a happenstance coming together of events – on the 2nd to the 8th December next week we will mark National Grief Awareness Week and then it will be UNESCO World Futures Day on the 2nd December. The latter is a day which is a
In a previous blog I mentioned that I had had the privilege of visiting Australia where I had the opportunity to meet with and discuss the challenges of delivering aged care in that vast country. Part of these conversations related to how providers navigated the challenges of remote and rural
NCHC and Nursing Uplift As I reported in the last update following a virtual dialogue with Scotland Excel it became clear that they are not planning to fully implement the Agenda for Change (AfC) increased rates for the whole of the existing Cost Model. Their reasons for so doing are
The ACRC Academy has a number of PhD projects.These PhDs are funded and applications are open to home students only
A study is being undertaken to look at the provision of foot care for people with advanced stage dementia across Scotland from Glasgow Caledonian University.
Home is where the health is … ageing well in place. The following is a shortened edited version of a talk given to the Edinburgh University Advanced Care Research Centre (ACRC) Spring Symposium on Monday 15th April. Whether tenement flat, bungalow, farmhouse, or croft virtually every piece of research I
Visiting Angelz, a Renfrewshire-based nurse-led care at home service has secured Living Hours accreditation
Opportunity for Professional Carers: Join the Creation of an Innovation Hub
The following blog is the text of an address given on the 28th March 2023 at the Luminate ‘Arts and Ageing’ Gathering at the Festival Theatre in Edinburgh. When I was asked to say a few words at the start of this event I did I have to confess
Scottish Care response to the latest report by the Scottish Trade Union Congress on the profiting on care.
Monday sees the start of the annual Dementia Awareness Week (DAW) and I have to confess that it is a week which brings to mind mixed emotions for me. Professionally it provides an annual opportunity to focus on the issues which are important to those who live with dementia, their
Today is World Labyrinth Day. I first came across labyrinths when I was at university and participated in a day of reflection as part of UN Peace Day. Since then, I have always been fascinated both by their ancient history and their contemporary usage. Indeed, in many senses labyrinths are
The S5GConnect Dumfries innovation challenge aims to support the development and delivery of 5G product and service innovations in the health and social care sector.
This week’s blog post is a bit different – it is the text of the address I gave yesterday at the Scottish Care Home Conference. This was the first in person event the sector has held since the start of the pandemic. This address opened the event. I have
I’ve written before in this blog about the fact that English was not my first language and that in my early days at school I struggled with language and in part as a result lacked confidence both in the use of English and as a result in some of the