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  I have just been reading a chain of Facebook messages about great ways to celebrate a life and say farewell when a care home resident dies. It reminded me…

  Last year my colleague had an awkward moment at a conference. The event, for managers of care providers large and small, saw this colleague run a presentation on how…

How care services are inspected and regulated in Scotland is undergoing changes, some of which have happened and some are to be implemented in the near future. The following is…

A few years ago, I was asked by my boss, who was new to homecare, to write about what he called, Random Acts of Kindness. This was nothing to do…

Next week I am speaking at a Healthy Ageing event in Cardiff on nutrition and age–related disease. So it’s been a good opportunity to reflect on the importance of diet…

We have a valued and envied health care system in this country. Recent surveys in Scotland by the Government showed overall high levels of satisfaction with the services received. A…

Care providers are diverse in their operations and often have a variety of locations from which they operate. Support workers and carers may be specifically assigned to a singular residential…

A strong Welsh legislative and regulatory framework is currently forming, to govern the commissioning, and delivery of social care. However, one important report which develops our understanding of good practice…