Dementia And Going Home
Norman McNamara, Author, Poet and Founder of Purple Angel - Dementia Awareness Campaign I want to go home!! I just want to go home!! I...
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Bright Copper Kettles CIC
Jul 15, 20203 min read
Fun-guarding: Involving the family
Our lives are awash with fond memoirs of the past, happiness in the present, and hope for the future. To love and be loved.
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Jul 8, 20201 min read
They're here in the UK!
It’s official, they’ve launched JELLY DROPS™! After 18 months of testing, trialling and eating more JELLY DROPS™ than they'd care to...
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Jul 8, 20203 min read
There's just no point in doing that!
Activity Coordinators (ACs) are often scorned for the activities they plan with their care home residents. When I speak to other members...
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Jul 6, 20201 min read
Jelly Drops: hydrating sweets for those living with dementia
Jelly Drops™ are hydrating sweets designed to enable people with dementia to hydrate more often and independently.
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Jun 29, 20206 min read
To care for the dying is sacred work.
All around the world communities have their own specific traditions for sitting with, and keeping watch over, those who are dying.
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Jun 23, 20202 min read
Family newspapers every week for older adults living in a care home
From a mobile or a computer, children and grandchildren post pictures and messages for their grandparents.
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Jun 13, 20202 min read
Aromatherapy and Carers
It is, therefore, important that you know and understand the signs for caregiver’s stress and burnout and to have practices in place...
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Bright Copper Kettles CIC
Jun 12, 20202 min read
Aromatherapy and Cancer care
The use of aromatherapy oils with Cancer care is as a complimentary therapy and not an alternative therapy.
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Jun 10, 20202 min read
Dementia and Aromatherapy
Aromatherapy is an alternative therapy that uses essential oils and plants to improve a person’s wellbeing.
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Jun 10, 20201 min read
Rev Professor June Boyce - Tillman Speaks about Music and Mandalas (Lockdown 2020)
June Boyce - Tillman reads a poem and talks about why the spiritual care of elders in care homes matters.
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Bright Copper Kettles CIC
Jun 9, 20202 min read
Can Aromatherapy help my stress?
.. my most often used essential oils for stress are
Lavender, a widely accepted essential oil used in the treatment of stress and insomnia.
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Bright Copper Kettles CIC
Jun 8, 20202 min read
What is Aromatherapy?
It's Aromatherapy Awareness Week
and our guest blog today comes from Helen Buckley, owner of Revive All and FHT local group coordinator.
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Bright Copper Kettles CIC
Jun 4, 20202 min read
Being a care home activity coordinator
Being an activity coordinator isn't about being the care home clown, the lead singer or the events organiser (although sometimes it is 🤷)
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Jun 3, 20202 min read
The Blanket for Me
The Blanket for Me project was started by Chris, a community interpreter working in hospitals and care homes in the UK, in April 2019....
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Bright Copper Kettles CIC
Jun 2, 20201 min read
Lockdown Travels
So far residents have been on a bus trip to Largs and a flight to Dublin. (both including local treats such as ice cream and Guinness)
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Bright Copper Kettles CIC
May 29, 20202 min read
Volunteers- the backbone of society.
I have always found that any care setting cannot function fully without the fantastic help from a swelling army of hardy souls of all ages.
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Bright Copper Kettles CIC
May 28, 20202 min read
Mental health app Flow joins ORCHA App Library
Mental health startup Flow has become the highest scoring free depression treatment app in the ORCHA App Library. The inclusion means...
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Bright Copper Kettles CIC
May 26, 20203 min read
Helping older people to look after their teeth
During National Smile Month (18th May to 18th June) the Oral Health Foundation are raising awareness of important health issues, ready to...
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Bright Copper Kettles CIC
May 22, 20202 min read
Lockdown means that the Musical Memories Choir is bigger than ever!
Guest blog from Helen Hunter, Red Cafe Mumbles. In 2014 8 people in Swansea met for the first time as the Musical Memories Choir. In...
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