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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

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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General

Recreating the age of steam – in a care home

A care home in Gloucestershire is encouraging residents to reminisce by creating their own vintage train carriage experience

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People with dementia unsafely discharged from hospital at night

A report has highlighted the problem of people with dementia being sent home from hospital at unsafe or inappropriate times

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Eat a tuna sandwich once a week to help fight dementia

A study has found it can help to reduce cognitive decline, and the same goes for fish fingers, salmon or fishcakes…

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Dear Dementia: Alz Soc calls for people to confront dementia

The Alzheimer’s Society want people to address dementia directly, and share their thoughts and concerns during Dementia Awareness Week 2016

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Dementia Awareness Week – what else is going on?

Find out what other news and events are happening during Dementia Awareness Week (15-21 May)

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Fill out our Lasting Power of Attorney Survey and win £100

We’d like to find out more about your experiences of setting up this important legal document, or whether it’s something you’d be looking to do in the future

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On yer bike! New project aims to get people with dementia cycling

Having dementia doesn’t mean you have to park up your push bike, at least that’s what a London-based project is keen to demonstrate…

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Two thirds feel dementia diagnosis would mean ‘life is over’

An Alzheimer’s Society survey has found dementia is so feared that many assume their life is over after a diagnosis, while 56% of people put off seeking a diagnosis

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Please don’t keep correcting us

People living with dementia reveal 12 ways to improve the way you communicate with someone who has dementia

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What does 'live-in care' mean?

live-in care blog

What does 'live-in care' mean?