During the COVID-19 crisis, we realised that our care workers felt anxious and isolated. They weren’t able to run all their weekly team meetings or carry out...
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In a care setting, mealtimes create a rhythm and structure to the day. Breakfast, lunch, teatime and supper can be precious moments of connection between...
There is a terrific cartoon about an alien, arriving on planet Earth for the first time, asking an office worker to be taken to see their ‘leader.’ The...
The pandemic has affected us all to a greater or lesser degree; it has impacted our families, our homes, and our jobs. Consequently, it has had a devastating...
Is it a bird? is it a plane? no, it’s eight-year-old Poppy from Cleveland, whose mum Gemma Dixon works for in-home care company Caremark (Redcar and...
Jane Brightman, Social Care General Manager, The Institute of Health and Social Care Management
While the Covid-19 pandemic has certainly shone a spotlight on...
Happy Scrubs’ art auction helping bring joy to care homes
Happy Scrubs, a new social enterprise that creates colourful, inspiring health-worker scrubs for...
Over the coming weeks the country may be finally out of lockdown. If so it would be tempting to refer to that period as ‘post-Covid’ where we can focus on...
The COVID-19 pandemic has bought into sharp focus how difficult it can be to cope with multiple and abrupt changes in one’s life simultaneously. Rapidly...
Karolina Gerlich, CEO of The Care Workers’ Charity on the crisis of wellbeing in the social care workforce, and how the Charity’s Mental Health &...
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