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West Midlands Care Providers and Care Workers
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Why Every Care Provider with a Sponsorship Licence Needs a Compliance Audit Right Now

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Advice

How to Switch Care Sponsors

A complete, step-by-step timeline from resignation to starting your new role. If you’re a care worker in the UK on a Skilled Worker visa, switching sponsors can feel like a complicated process.

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Advice

Will it be lonely this Christmas? Dealing with dementia and loneliness

Many people on the dementia journey experience acute loneliness at this time of year. Here’s some of the most common reasons why you, or a person you care about, might be feeling lonely – and how to help.

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Advice

Preventing dementia


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General

Activity and its role in identity for someone with dementia

Scent and dementia expert Linda Harman explains why activities – even the simplest ones – can be vital for giving someone with dementia a sense of purpose and identity

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How to make your garden safe for someone with dementia

Find out how to turn your garden into a safe haven that your loved one will really enjoy spending time in

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Mental health and dementia

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Dealing with symptoms of sadness and depression

It can be upsetting to watch a loved one with dementia becoming sad or depressed. But depression after a dementia diagnosis is quite common and once you know the signs and symptoms there are lots of things you can do to make life feel better

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Advice

Time disorientation and sundowning

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General

Telling the time when you have dementia

We explain why people living with dementia can find it increasingly difficult to tell the time – and show you how a dementia clock may help…

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General

Designing a new Day Clock

Live Better With’s Head of New Product Development talks through the design process of the new Reminder Day Clock, and how it’s been made as effective as possible for people living with dementia.

West Midlands Care Providers and Care Workers

Meet the West Midlands AI Coaches Supporting International Care Workers

A new AI coaching platform is supporting international care workers in the West Midlands - offering personalised guidance on jobs, training, housing, wellbeing and community life.

live-in care blog

What does 'live-in care' mean?

West Midlands Care Providers and Care Workers

Meet the West Midlands AI Coaches Supporting International Care Workers

A new AI coaching platform is supporting international care workers in the West Midlands - offering personalised guidance on jobs, training, housing, wellbeing and community life.

live-in care blog

What does 'live-in care' mean?