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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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Latest UK Visa Sponsorship Rules

This all-in-one guide explains the latest UK visa sponsorship rules, including the major changes introduced in July 2025.

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Advice

Home security tips for someone with dementia

Worried about keeping your loved one with dementia safe if they live at home? We’ve found an expert to provide some advice…

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New carrier bag charge to fund UCL dementia centre

Four major supermarkets are donating proceeds from the new plastic bag charge to help pay for construction of a dementia research centre

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Theatre review: ‘The Father’ – witty, moving, heart-breaking…

The play by Frenchman Florian Zeller manages to tick every box in its depiction of the distressing decline of a man with dementia

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Museums become more dementia friendly

Visiting a museum can bring surprising benefits for people with dementia, a new study has found

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Real Stories and Diaries

‘It’s people going through the dementia journey who are most helpful’

One carer shares her experiences of looking after her husband, who is in the later stages of dementia

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Three quarters of over-55s have ‘dementia dread’

Unforgettable have carried out a poll to discover attitudes to dementia, and found concern about the illness has increased by almost a quarter since 2012

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Harnessing the smell of autumn for dementia care

Scent expert Linda Harman explains how the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness can be so enjoyable for someone with dementia

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David Baddiel: On dementia fears and media rumours

The comedian and TV star admits one flippant comment about his father’s dementia and fears about his own memory led to an explosion of media coverage which failed to cover the complex nature of the condition and his own feelings

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Is it old age…or dementia?

Many people still don’t know the difference between the symptoms of dementia and the ‘normal’ forgetfulness which comes with age, a new study has revealed

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What does 'live-in care' mean?

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What does 'live-in care' mean?