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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

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?