David Jones is a digital content specialist at Helping Hands Home Care, with extensive experience writing about home care, ageing, and support for adults living with complex conditions. He focuses on turning clinical and operational insight into clear, reassuring information that families can actually use when making care decisions. David works closely with branches, carers, and subject matter experts to ensure every article is accurate, practical, and aligned with Helping Hands’ commitment to quality, transparency, and person-centred care.
Our live in carers work on a 1-2-1 relationship. Their client is their sole focus, they have no other distractions. This means that they have the time to ensure that medication routines are exact. The fact that it’s a given that your meds will be prepared and taken on time means that you can focus […]
By Cathy Millwood, Chairman and Membership Secretary, MS Society, Stratford-upon-Avon and District Branch Multiple Sclerosis, which literally means “many scars”, can be a life-changing condition and affects around 100,000 people in the UK. MS affects the central nervous system (brain and spine) which controls the body’s actions and activities such as balance and movement. The […]
Imagine an entire city of people with dementia. Sound like a movie? Well it’s not. It’s the United Kingdom in ten years time, when it is predicted that one million people – equivalent to the population of a city the size of Birmingham – will be living with dementia. Perhaps even more startling is the […]
A leading health expert Professor Peter Piot is calling Dementia a global health bomb, comparing the disease to the AIDS epidemic. The misconception is that dementia is a normal part of aging and that there is nothing that can be done to slow the disease. This is not the case. One person is diagnosed with […]
Recognising the key role that unpaid carers play in the community in and around Warwickshire, Alcester based live in care provider, Helping Hands has awarded the prestigious ‘Carer of the Year’ accolade to Denese Farley at the 2012 Pride of Stratford Awards. The Pride of Stratford Awards, which took place on February 17th are designed […]
by Dr Rekha Elaswarapu, M. Stud. Ph.D. MIHM, Dignity Advisor for Helping Hands Britain is an ageing society, improvements in medical treatments and facilities over the last fifty years mean that people are living longer than ever before. This is great news and improvements in life expectancy should be applauded. Due to various government initiatives […]
by Dr Rekha Elaswarapu, Helping Hands Advisor on Dignity A dignity code is being called for to protect elderly from abuse, undignified care and discrimination based on age as reported in the Daily Telegraph today. This call has support from the minister for home care services Paul Burstow and his Labour shadow, Liz Kendall, as […]
As one of the country’s oldest and most respected live-in care providers, Helping Hands is in the fortunate position of having some of the country’s best professional carers working for us. From Cornwall, to Cumbria and beyond, our remarkable carers are so often the difference which enables people to remain in their own home and […]
The UKHCA believes it is an important wide-ranging contribution to the debate about how we care for older people and other vulnerable groups. While broadly supportive of the Committee’s single commissioning proposal, the Association believes that to succeed it must capitalise on the best from social care, rather than be biased towards acute healthcare. UKHCA […]
Dr Rekha Elaswarapu is an Advisor to Helping Hands; she is a dignity champion and an experienced professional who is passionate about quality improvement and better outcomes for people using services in health and social care. With over ten years of experience in health and social care environment both in policy and regulation as well […]
