Sacrificing their career and holidays – What it’s like to look after relative with dementia
Carers have revealed what it’s really like to look after relatives with dementia, including sacrificing their career and holidays away – and doing it all alone. And worryingly, the burden has only increased in the wake of the pandemic. A third have spent more time caring for relatives than before and 27 per cent have […]
Planning key to the development of London’s senior living sector
New research produced by property consultancy Knight Frank and law firm Irwin Mitchell concludes that London councils are overall underprepared to provide suitable housing for seniors, though there are some boroughs offering opportunities. The new research identified the ten opportunity areas ripe for development of seniors’ housing across England, distinguishing between areas where there is […]
Care home manager time ‘best spent on back office tasks’
Research conducted by the Professional division of Miele at Health Plus Care revealed that the majority of carehome managers believe their residents would get greater benefit if they spent more time focusing on management and back office responsibilities. Over half of respondents said they felt they spend too much time personally carrying out carerather than managing the business. The survey sample […]
Care Inspectorate highlights issues in Scottish care
Complaints about care in Scotland have risen in the past four years, according to the Care Inspectorate. A new report has revealed that the volume of complaints received by the Care Inspectorate has increased from 4,089 received in 2015/16 to 4,940 in 2018/19. However, the Care Inspectorate stressed that although levels of complaints received have […]
Study to analyse links between sleep and dementia
A new state of the art sleep unit has opened at the University of East Anglia (UEA), with scientists eager to investigate whether there is a link between sleep deprivation and dementia. Sleep disturbances are common in dementia. But it is not yet known whether Alzheimer’s causes sleep problems, or whether sleep problems could be […]
Effects of Brexit on care jobs laid bare
The £30,000 per annum salary threshold proposed in the Government’s future immigration system will impact the recruitment of care staff, according to the Local Government Association (LGO). In its latest Brexit Briefing paper, the body says many social care and health jobs do not meet the requirements for the minimum skills or salary threshold. The […]
Sexism towards female job applicants still prevalent
Data from job ads search engine specialist Adzuna.co.uk indicates the level of gender-bias across the UK’s job market and its industries through gender-coded language present in job ads. However, social care and healthcare & nursing err more towards a neutral tone of voice. The news comes as the government has unveiled a new national recruitment […]
Healthcare Information Systems market worth $521682.6m by 2026
The global market for IT healthcare systems was valued at $227021.4 million in 2017 and is forecast to be worth $521682.6 million by the end of 2026. According to a new report from Transparency Market Research, the market is projected to exhibit a robust CAGR of 9.6% in the forecast period, with key players including Cerner […]
‘Large disparity’ in cybersecurity skills and spending across NHS
A series of Freedom of Information (FOI) requests submitted by Redscan to NHS trusts in the UK have found that, on average, trusts have just one member of staff with professional security credentials per 2,628 employees. Some large trusts (with up to 16,000 total employees) have no formally qualified security professionals whatsoever. Expenditure on cybersecurity training […]
STUDY: Night time postural supports ‘have major health benefits’
Supports designed to make sure older people with complex health problems sleep in better positions can make huge differences to their health and quality of life, researchers at Salford University have found. Melanie Stephens, Senior Lecturer in Adult Nursing, and Carol Bartley, Lecturer in Occupational Therapy from the University of Salford, conducted the first study […]
