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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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Why winter can make dementia symptoms worse
As the cold weather gets a grip, you might find that your loved one with dementia becomes more distressed, agitated or depressed. Here’s what to expect and how to manage.

Tracking devices and dementia: What you need to know
Tracking devices are a great way to keep a loved one with dementia safe, but they can raise legal and ethical issues. Here are the pros and cons of getting a tracker

4 ways to deal with stigma and ignorance
Dementia is challenging enough without the added burden of caring for a person whose condition seems to cause embarrassment and fear. Worrying about what people might think or say about your loved one can cast a dark shadow over your daily life.

Feeling low? 3 ways to shake off the winter blues when you're a dementia carer
Monday January 21 is officially the most depressing day of the year, so whether you’re feeling low yourself, or concerned about the person you’re caring for, here’s a few ideas that might help to brighten up your week!

Who’s caring for YOU? 5 ways to beat carer loneliness
A recent survey revealed that eight out of ten family carers feel lonely. If you’re caring for a person with dementia, the loneliness can sometimes feel overwhelming. Here’s a few ideas that might help you feel less isolated.

Dementia diagnosis: When do you go public?
The diagnosis may have come as a terrible shock for both of you, or it might have been something you’d been expecting. But now it’s up to the person you love who they decide to tell about their dementia…or not.

Stuck for things to do? Here’s 10 activity ideas to enjoy with someone with dementia
It’s cold outside, but you’re running out of things to do at home. We asked experts at NAPA (the National Activities Providers Association) for some much-needed inspiration.

Dementia: The steps toward diagnosis

Coronavirus and dementia care: Information and advice

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.

What does 'live-in care' mean?

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.
