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Falls Awareness Week 2013 – Monday 17 – Friday 21 June 2013
Falls Awareness Week 2013 – Monday 17 – Friday 21 June 2013 Helping Hands supports Age UK’s Falls Awareness Week…
Helping Hands recognises the challenges facing local families living with Dementia
Leading hourly visiting care and live-in homecare specialist Helping Hands brought their award winning training to families at the Greswolde…
Dementia care and GPS tags
20 May 2013 Dementia care and GPS tags By: Dr. Rekha Elaswarupu Recent report in The Telegraph that says dementia…
Stroke And Its Impact
By: Dr. Rekha Elaswarupu Stroke is one of the major conditions that can affect people over 65 years of age.…
Helping Hands Host Dementia Family Days
Read the following: Helping Hands are running Dementia family days to help to educate loved ones of Dementia sufferers, hosted…
Care Quality Commission report on Dementia
The Care Quality Commission published an update on the state of care in various health conditions as well as various…
Dementia Family Day March 2013
Helping Hands’ training team delivered its unique Dementia training session to 31 delegates on Saturday, to rave reviews and a…
Working in partnership with relatives
Relatives play an important part in how carers can deliver care. When the family of an elderly person engages care…
The Real Cost of Home Care
Independent research carried out recently has highlighted the costs associated with keeping someone independent in their own home. We were…
Human Rights and older people
Often human rights are only seen as relevant to people being deported or as an overseas matter. Contrary to this…
Helping Hands carer wins ‘Care Worker of the Year’
Another award for the national live-in care provider Less than two weeks after its Dementia Team Leader won National Dementia…
Hidden crisis of hearing loss
By Dr Rekha Elaswarapu, Helping Hands Advisor A World of Silence – The case for tackling hearing loss in care…