Expert Insights

Recent press reports have highlighted data that in the last 5 years 1,463 died in Care Homes from malnutrition, dehydration or bedsores. To highlight the importance of nutrition and hydration…

National Hate Crime Awareness Week takes place every year in October. This year, at the beginning of National Hate Crime Awareness week, it was reported that disability hate crimes have…

  The verbal reminder (often referred to as prompting) is a commonly used medication support intervention for Service Users who can self-manage taking their medicines but may occasionally forget to…

  “Music evokes emotion, and emotion can bring with it memory… it brings back the feeling of life when nothing else can.” Oliver Sacks I love being involved in activities involving…

  Workplace sickness will inevitably have an impact on the business as well as placing a strain on other employees. Encouragingly, the level of sickness absence in the UK is…

  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’.…

There has been much discussion in the media in the last year about rising rates of people suffering from clinical depression. Why should this have happened? We’re living in a…

  There seems to be plenty of practical advice out there on dressing someone with dementia. Providing clothes that are easy to get on and off for toileting, velcro slippers,…