Adult Social Care

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…

  When was the last time we thought deeply about our feet? When was the last time you gave them your care and attention? Our feet are probably the most…

  How can Health and Social Care Providers help people say it as it is? Tuning In I’m really listening to my Mum.  I’ve not seen my parents in a…

    I do like the title of this recently published report into home care, based on a UNISON survey of 1,000 home care workers.  I like it because it…