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• DC Care Sells 3 Dimensions Care Ltd Specialist School & Residential Homes

  15-03-2021 15:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  DC Care is delighted to announce the sale of 3 Dimensions Care Limited, an Independent Special Educational Needs School located close to the Somerset and Devon border. The business provides residential care and education to children and adults with learning disabilities, challenging behaviour and communication difficulties, including autistic spectrum disorders (ASD). The highly regarded group comprises three residential homes, which in total can accommodate 12 residents and on the main site inc
  
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• Perthshire care home resident celebrates 100th birthday

  15-03-2021 11:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  A Perthshire care home resident who participates in weekly exercise classes is celebrated her 100th birthday.Margaret Burns, a resident at Balhousie Pitlochry care home, marked the milestone birthday yesterday, Monday 1st March, with music, flowers and a cake baked especially by the home’s chef, Lionel Ballard.Margaret also spent time with one of her oldest friends who is also a resident in the care home. Born in Pitlochry in 1921, Margaret lived in Blair Atholl and worked in the local Pos
  
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• Royal Star & Garter Homes Mark St David’s Day

  15-03-2021 08:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  St David’s Day has been marked at Royal Star & Garter’s three Homes.Arts and crafts, daffodil flower-arranging, quizzes and poetry readings were part of the series of activities arranged at the Homes in Solihull, Surbiton and High Wycombe, to celebrate the Patron Saint of Wales on Monday, 1 March.Royal Star & Garter provides loving, compassionate care to veterans and their partners living with disability or dementia. It celebrates cultural days throughout the calendar as part
  
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• Green Gables care home restarts family visits – a photo essay

  15-03-2021 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Photographer Christopher Bethell’s very personal project documents the residents of Green Gables care home, who this week have finally been allowed to have a family visitor to see themFor the first time since the beginning of England’s first national lockdown, I saw my mum sit down next to my gran’s bed to hold her hand and comfort her. It was 8 March, the first day of regulations being loosened to let children back into schools and allow care home residents to be visited by th
  
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• 'Dad stood at Mum's window every night for a year': care home visitors – a photo essay

  15-03-2021 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Photographer Christopher Bethell documents the residents of Green Gables care home, who this week have finally been allowed to have a family visitor to see themFor the first time since the beginning of England’s first national lockdown, I saw my mum sit down next to my gran’s bed to hold her hand and comfort her. It was 8 March, the first day of regulations being loosened to let children back into schools and allow care home residents to be visited by their loved ones. The rules perm
  
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