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• Dorset care home residents enjoy festive trip to Lapland

  22-12-2020 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  Creative staff at a Sturminster Newton care home put residents firmly in the mood for Christmas with a surprise ‘flight to Lapland’.Weeks of planning went in at Colten Care’s Outstanding-rated Newstone House to ensure the virtual trip was every bit as magical as a real travel experience.It began with residents being handed a personalised invite and letter from Santa together with a red ‘Land of Newstonia’ passport complete with their photo – and of course a bo
  
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• Care home residents celebrate Christmas with students at Primary School

  22-12-2020 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Hall Residential Care Home, in Thornton-le-Dale, has joined forces with Thornton Dale Church of England Primary School for a virtual Christmas party.Residents would normally mark the festive period with visits from carol singing school children, but this year they have tweaked their plans.Despite restrictions, students at Thornton Dale Primary were eager to celebrate the holidays with residents at The Hall and organised a game of bingo and a tea party to be held on Zoom.Nicky Beach, manager
  
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• Care group employs extra staff to offer care home visiting

  22-12-2020 15:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  A Yorkshire care group has taken on two new employees as it gears up to welcome back visitors in a controlled way to its care and nursing homes from tomorrow.Saint Cecilia’s Care Group has hired two Visitor Coordinators to begin Covid-19 tested visits to its homes before Christmas.The group runs Saint Cecilia’s Nursing Home, Saint Cecilia’s Care Home, and Normanby House Care Home in Scarborough and the Alba Rose Care Home in PickeringBev Hutchinson and Sharon Graves have joined
  
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• Thirty-two years of covering social care, and older people are still neglected | David Brindle

  22-12-2020 08:30
  
  As the coronavirus crisis has shown, residential care remains a Cinderella service. Could we learn from Thatcher’s localising reforms?My first article for the Guardian was headlined “Elderly need more right to choose” and was a report of the Wagner review of residential care. The sector was held in low esteem, the government review had found, expressing “burning indignation” at the way the lives of those most in need of help and support were devalued. Urgent reform
  
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• Oxfordshire care home transformed into a winter wonderland

  22-12-2020 03:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  A dementia specialist care home in Oxfordshire has transformed their home into a winter wonderland to light up the village, and spread Christmas joy after a difficult year.Every year as an annual gift to the residents, staff, and the local community, Rosebank Care Home has decorated the outside of their home with wonderful lights, for all to enjoy. This year, more than ever, the light installation is hoped to bring some festive cheer to everyone at the home, and tho
  
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