Tag Archives: carer

What is the future for Care Homes?

What’s the future of care homes?
Vern Pitt
Wednesday 06 April 2011 10:57

Care homes are struggling to come to terms with fewer local authority contracts and politicians’ preference for independent living. How can the sector respond, asks Vern Pitt

The country’s biggest residential care provider, Southern Cross Healthcare, last month ran into serious financial trouble raising fears that similar problems could spread through the sector.

Why Carers Care!

Bees in Art

Cupid stung by Bees – There is never sweetness without pain. When someone becomes a carer there is usually pain, and all because they have loved.

SNP help for Carers in Scotland

The SNP has set out a range of measures aimed at helping Scotland’s unpaid carers, including continuing to fund 10,000 weeks of respite provision over the next five years.