The prestigious ‘social care Oscars’, the Wales Care Awards, will take place one week from today, on October 24, in Cardiff’s City Hall. This year marks the 12th year of the awards which honour the unsung heroes of social care… read more »
A CARER has been nominated for a prestigious national award for the creative and crafty way she goes about her job. Karen Jeffries lives in Blaenau, and started working at Maesteilo Care Home in Llandeilo 18 months ago… read more »
Care providers are being encouraged to say ‘shwmae’ (or ‘sumae’ in North Wales) on October 15 to encourage the active use of Welsh in care homes. ‘Diwrnod Shwmae / Su’mae’ is being promoted by the Welsh Government’s Health and Social Services Welsh Language Policy… read more »
The Older People’s Commissioner for Wales, Sarah Rochira, has told the BBC that some care home residents were becoming ‘malnourished’ because not enough care was going into the food they were offered. Ms Rochira made the comments following her Residential… read more »
The Five Nations Care Forum, of which Care Forum Wales is a member and supporter, now has an online presence to set out its remit, objectives and plans for the future. The Five Nationsl Care Forum is an alliance of the… read more »
Figures released by the Office for National Statistics show that the number of older people in Britain who are ‘very old’ has surprassed half a million. The figures for 2013 show that there were 527,240 people aged 90 or over living… read more »
A north Wales hospice, St Kentigern Hospice in St Asaphy, Denbighshire, is running a pilot scheme offering an out-of-hours palliative care advice and help to nursing home staff across the region. The hopsice has set up a dedicated phone line… read more »
Residents of the Romilly Nursing Home in Cardiff showed off their artistic prowess over the summer with an exhibition of famous paintings they’d recreated. One of the residents, a graduate of London’s Slade school of Art, was particularly overjoyed: she broke down after… read more »
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Care Forum Wales chair, Mario Kreft, has welcomed the integration of the social services and health portfolios following a cabinet reshuffle by First Minister Carwyn Jones last week (September 11). While the passion and drive of deputy minister for social… read more »