Category Archives: Older care

Care home residents jump aboard virtual cruise

February 3, 2013   Carers, Older care

Story by: ANDREW PAPWORTH Sunday, February 3, 2013
12:00 PM

CARE home residents were taken on a “virtual cruise” on Monday.

 

Cromwell Care Home, Huntingdon, are having a Virtual Cruise, resident Jackie Tulip (95) originally from Scotland meets Piper Roy Sloane, from LongstantonCromwell Care Home, Huntingdon, are having a Virtual Cruise, resident Jackie Tulip (95) originally from Scotland meets Piper Roy Sloane, from Longstanton

Cromwell House Care Home in Huntingdon High Street wanted to do something different to mark National Dignity Day, which takes place on Friday (February 1), so staff decided to stage a week-long series of activities to take the home’s 32 residents back to the cruises they enjoyed in years gone by.

“A lot of our residents have been on cruises in the past but they cannot go on cruises any more,” said general manager Linda Martinez. “We wanted to bring a taste of these countries back to them by taking them on a virtual cruise around different countries.”

The week started in Scotland, where residents enjoyed a haggis lunch and got to meet piper Roy Sloane. Other countries due to be included were France, Italy, Turkey and Ireland.

http://www.huntspost.co.uk/news/latest-news/care_home_residents_jump_aboard_virtual_cruise_1_1848081

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Up to £2.5m earmarked to fund volunteer army to help Norfolk’s vulnerable elderly

January 29, 2013   Carers, Norfolk, Older care

Up to £2.5m earmarked to fund volunteer army to help Norfolk’s vulnerable elderly population

Richard Wheeler Tuesday, January 29, 2013
5:36 PM

Council bosses have been urged to keep care funds flowing for thousands of vulnerable elderly people – after they backed spending £2.5m on recruiting a new volunteer army.

Norfolk County Council hopes to find helpers to knock on doors and tell people aged over 75 about the care services they are entitled to receive.

This will include helping people access lunch clubs, befriending services, short breaks and welfare benefit advice.

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High-tech home help

January 29, 2013   Carers, Older care

By Charles Laurence , Wednesday 23 January 2013

A new touch-screen system arriving in the UK this year (courtesy of Saga!)

promises to revolutionise old age. It helps to keep older people in their own homes for longer by enabling family or carers to keep a loving eye on mum or dad from afar. Here’s where it all began…
Simple medical information goes into the system too, such as blood pressure monitoring results.Simple medical information, such as a blood pressure reading, can be entered into the system.

At about the time that Michael Murdock began to worry about his mother’s approaching old age, his eye was caught by a stand at a high-tech trade show. It was called GrandCare Systems. Murdock was in business fitting ‘smart’ automation technology to expensive homes – his was a company you called when you wanted to be able to set the swimming-pool temperature from your car, or watch the front gate with hidden cameras. Amid the gizmos and trade tools at the show, GrandCare seemed to be offering something a little different.

‘I thought “Wow”,’ he says. ‘Here was a company with the sort of technology I use, but adapted to help me look after my mum!’

What it was offering was a way of watching over a loved one with a minimum of intrusion and a maximum of communication. And it was easy to use.

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