David Jones
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.
15 July 2011 Respite Care We have found that many family members that are carers, never take a break. The majority feel guilty at leaving their loved on to go on holiday, they hate the idea of having to put someone through the upheaval of going into a home for two weeks, of them having […]
14 July 2011 OUR LATEST RESEARCH- LACK OF TRUST IN CARERS FUELING A NATION OF HOME CARERS THREE quarters of Brits would rather take on the burden of caring for elderly relatives then put them into a home – because they don’t trust care homes. New research has revealed that Brits don’t like the idea […]
12 July 2011 The Importance of Keeping Fit For most of us it is the summer months where we try and watch what we eat so we can wear cool summer clothes and try and fit into garments that are reasonably fashionable. After the excesses of the winter months where we all, lets admit it […]
06 July 2011 Partnership Assurance – Response to Dilnot It doesn’t take a visionary to understand that the care and financial services sector are going to have to work closely together in the future. Monday’s Dilnot Report intimated that we need to look at ways in which individuals can raise the cash to fund their […]
29 June 2011 The Dilnot Report – How Far Will It Go ? Next week sees the long awaited Dilnot Report, the coalitions attempt to make sense of the vacuous hole regarding the funding of elderly care and some sensible recommendations as to a way forward. With the recent focus on the demise of Southern […]
03 June 2011 A Response to Panorama The programme aired by Panorama last night was truly horrific viewing. The systematic physical and verbal abuse uncovered at Winterbourne View towards their vulnerable adults highlighted consistent failings from both within Castlebeck and from the Care Quality Commission ( CQC), our social care regulator – neither of which […]
Refresher Training Knowing how important constant, relevant and up to date skills are to our customers, carers and office staff, we not only conduct the weekly 4 day residential assessment for all new live-in recruits but also refresher training. Refresher training does what it says on the tin – it refreshes memory and gives carers […]
26 May 2011 Workers to be told to save for care in old age Many people will be banking on relying on the current social care system to take care of them in old age. Unfortunately they will be in for a rude awakening. By 2031 almost one in four people in Britain will be […]
23 May 2011 Helping Hands Offers Superior Care Training We have known it for years and have been telling all our customers, recruits and carers that we have the best home care training team and facilities on offer. Now it has been officially recognised by the Great British Care Awards that our very own Training […]
20 May 2011 How the impending collapse of Southern Cross will effect the care industry Today it has emerged that the countries biggest care home group Southern Cross is on the brink of collapse.The media is understandably focussing on the monitory implications and ramifications to the company of the impending collapse with 45000 people facing […]