Adult Social Care

Fifty percent of people with dementia also suffer from depression (Alzheimer’s Society). This figure is likely to be much higher during the Coronavirus pandemic where isolation, disrupted routines and increased…

COVID-19 has changed all our lives. And it’s changed the lives of people who live in care settings more than most. One of the strange cruelties of the virus is…

You may have heard of Five Ways to Wellbeing. Developed by the New Economics Foundation, it is a guide to actions we can all take to improve our physical and…

When we are caring for people living with dementia, we try our best to understand what they might be going through. As we get to know them, we start to…

  I have in my kitchen a large box, a box that sits high at the far end of a tall cupboard. Within this box is a pharmacy of ‘delight’.…

  My eyesight is not what it was twenty years ago, progressively I find myself straining more and more to read the top shelf in the supermarket and interpret my…

Those involved in the social care sector be familiar with the issues associated with the calculation of ‘sleep-in’ payments, in the wake of the Focus Care Agency (Mencap) case. The current…

  On Thursday Andrea Sutcliffe Chief Inspector of Adult Social Care for CQC, talked in her Column about the new Provider Information Collection which will take the place of the…