Care home outdoor spaces are spruced up by unpaid work team

Covid-19 in a Scots care home hopes legal action will prevent other families enduring a similar ordeal. Colin Harris passed away in April after catching the deadly bug.

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East Kilbride News the facility “should have been shut a long time ago”. The distraught family spoke of the neglect their 72-year-old relative faced and how they found him on his death bed “filthy, unshaven and with a massive bruise on his face”.That’s only after they were told he was being taken to hospital and “not to rush” there as it was “nothing too serious”.Hours later, he died from advanced pneumonia.

dementia pensioner who recorded a charity single is back on the microphone after music 'saved her' during lockdown. We told how a video of Margaret Mackie performing Frank Sinatra's My Way at her care home in Edinburgh went viral in late 2019.

coronavirus testing system after a tiny number of staff received their results last week. Tony Banks of Balhousie Care said only six results were returned from 846 staff last week, following demands put on the system by pupils getting screened.

pen pals for lonely residents hoping to make new friends after lockdown restrictions eased. The Dalmellington Care Centre in Ayr has issued a public appeal for open letters and pictures to be sent to their residents after visiting was prohibited for months during the coronavirus pandemic.

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our personalised newsletter.Residents from a Hamilton care centre have been keeping in touch with each other by showing off a variety of their talents.Throughout the pandemic, Lornebank Care Centre’s priority has been ensuring the safety and wellbeing of all its residents and staff.Whilst the home’s units remain isolated from one another in the best interest of residents and staff, the care centre has continued to encourage a

Click here for more news from the Airdrie and Coatbridge AdvertiserTrudi Marshall, the nurse director of Health & Social Care North Lanarkshire, said: “When visiting care homes it’s vital people continue to physically distance, wear a face covering and practice good hand hygiene.“It is also vitally important that anyone who is a designated visitor for a family member in a care home complies with all current Scottish Government guidance in their personal life.“The vast majority of people have

Vogue Challenge craze, recreating famous covers from the mid Nineteenth Century to 2018.The Vogue Challenge went viral in June when fans of the magazine began creating their own cover star images on TikTok, complete with Vogue logos.Two residents from Robinson House Care Home posed in the same style as models on iconic US editions from the 1940s and 1960s, while another went all-out to emulate Beyoncé’s famous 2018 September issue.

Skye care home where 10 residents died from Covid-19 following a virus outbreak has been dropped. The Care Inspectorate, which monitors the sector, made an unannounced inspection at Home Farm care home in Portree on May 11.

Didsbury. James Cleere was last seen turning left out of Ashley House care home on Barlow Moor Road, heading towards Chorlton.

care home residents will be able to receive more visits from friends and family from Monday, it was confirmed today. Up to three outdoor visitors from no more than two households will be allowed - if the home meets infection control criteria.

struggled with lack of PPE, Government guidance and a coherent testing procedure.But since the start of the pandemic, according to the Alzheimer's Society, there has been a 52 per cent rise in non-Covid related deaths in care homes and it's thought the impact of the crisis on mental health could have contributed to this.And this new guidance, which exists despite beer gardens still being allowed to open, has left Joyce facing a downward slide into depression - and her family are worried about