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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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Walking for an hour, three times a week could reverse dementia
Could something as simple as walking for an hour, three times a week really have a positive impact on people who are already diagnosed with dementia?
Dementia’s dirty secrets #7: Why carers still try to avoid the ‘D’ word
Is it right to protect someone from their own dementia diagnosis? James Ashwell asks whether it may be wiser – and kinder – to tell them the truth
Pump iron! How weightlifting can boost brain health
A twice weekly weights session was found to improve brain function of people with mild cognitive impairment
Cancer treatment approach offers hope for dementia
A treatment that could block the development of Alzheimer’s disease is being investigated by researchers at Lancaster University
Dementia on TV: It’s getting better all the time
More prime time TV dramas are including characters with dementia which, although uncomfortable to watch, are also helping to raise awareness, says Kate Corr
Online speech therapy could help people with dementia
New research into ‘telemedicine’ – providing a therapy a treatment remotely via telecomms technology – could help those with dementia hold onto language abilities
The sensor that alerts dementia carers when a loved one wanders
Proximity is a simple, yet effective product that will message your phone if someone you care for leaves your side, and Unforgettable is now selling it exclusively.
The healing power of horses for dementia
A ground-breaking programme in the US wants to harness the therapeutic effects of horses and study how it can help those with dementia
Research considers how a new pain relief drug could affect Alzheimer’s
A drug used to treat neuropathic pain may also be effective in ‘reversing’ symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease
What does 'live-in care' mean?