Care Home Finder Ltd is delighted to announce that the Board has, with immediate effect, appointed Fiona Gilbert to the new role of Chief Executive. Fiona is a founding director of the company and has been one of the main forces behind creating and delivering the high quality support and advice services for which the [...]
A quick glance at the CQC’s website reveals that over 3,500 care homes in the UK are classified as ‘requiring improvement’ and a further 600 as ‘inadequate’. Not only is this a big worry for individuals and their families, who are looking for a home, it can be equally concerning for those already in one. [...]
Care Home Finder is already well known and highly respected for providing a service to help individuals and their families to find a suitable care home, care at home, sheltered housing, or extra care. We are delighted to announce that we now also offer a complementary Care Review Service to ensure that the right care [...]
Have you discussed things with your relative and, have you included close family members in this? It’s an extremely sensitive matter and many people shy away from raising the subject, but you will feel so much better when you have, and more importantly, feel more assured that you are making the right decision. What type [...]
Imagine the scenario…. You’ve been comfortably retired for 20 years, and then one day you receive a letter out of the blue asking you to pay £100,000. The reason? To help provide funds for the care you might need towards the end of your life. You’d be up in arms, wouldn’t you? Totally unfair and [...]
The problem with the Tory policy on care, laid out in their manifesto, is that the consequences simply don’t seem to have been properly thought through. Currently, unlike those living in care homes, people who receive care at home do not have the value of their home included in their qualifying assets to determine how [...]
There has been much comment recently around what your care should include and what rights you, or your relative, have a right to expect. In some cases, there have been reports of people who complain, being barred from visiting the home to spend time with their relatives and even, in extreme cases, being asked to [...]
When talking about elderly care, most people think you mean care homes - which currently house around 400,000 individuals across the UK. But this figure pales into insignificance against the number of people receiving care from an unpaid family member or friend. 7 MILLION. Yes, that's right - at least 7 million people are being [...]
With the number of over 85s in the UK forecast to more than double in the next 20 years, you would imagine that care home operators would be rubbing their hands with glee. Not so. There are currently just over 20,000 care homes for the elderly in the UK, but despite the rapidly aging population, [...]
I met someone last week who told me a story about her grandfather, whose dementia condition had been worsening to such an extent that sadly he could no longer continue living on his own at home. So while my new acquaintance was working abroad, her parents had found a care home for him, and by [...]
