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The Care Quality Commission published an update on the state of care in various health conditions as well as various provider sectors. The update raises serious concerns about the care received by people with Dementia. It found that people with Dementia tended to stay longer in hospital, care notes were incorrect, resulting in inappropriate care, people […]

Another award for the national live-in care provider Less than two weeks after its Dementia Team Leader won National Dementia Personality of the Year, Helping Hands, one of the country’s leading live-in care specialists,  is celebrating again; this time as one its most experienced carers, Winsome Furness, wins Care Worker of the Year at the […]

By Dr Rekha Elaswarapu, Helping Hands Advisor A World of Silence – The case for tackling hearing loss in care homes’ is a report published by the charity ‘Action on Hearing Loss’. The report concludes that up to 250,000 elderly people in England have undiagnosed or unsupported hearing loss because of a hidden crisis in […]

by Dr Rekha Elaswarapu, Helping Hands Advisor Family carers are the backbone of the social care sector, providing valuable support for the NHS.  There are more than six million family carers up and down the country who often do not even recognise themselves as carers.  Without their involvement and support for practical and personal care […]

Dr Rekha Elaswarapu, Ph.D. MIHM “I had the opportunity to attend the (Helping Hands) dementia training session recently and I have to say I was highly impressed. The session was run by Jayne who many of you may have come across. Her passion, professionalism and the knowledge was invaluable.” Dementia affects more than 500,000 people […]

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, 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 care services Paul Burstow and his Labour shadow, Liz Kendall, as well […]

The homecare sector’s leading representative body, the United Kingdom Homecare Association (UKHCA) has welcomed the House of Commons Health Committee’s report into social care. 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 […]

Should care providers be ranked like hotels? Customer review websites are common place on the internet.  Many of us will not book a holiday without first checking a resort’s ranking on Tripadvisor; we won’t buy anything off eBay from a seller with a user ranking of less than 95% and we may even choose not […]

Building on its strong community reputation in and around Warwickshire, Alcester based care provider Helping Hands Home Care has announced that it will sponsor the ‘Carer of the Year’ award at the forthcoming Touch FM Pride of Stratford Awards, taking place on 17th February 2012 at the Holiday Inn, Stratford Upon Avon. The ‘Carer of […]