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Bristol Memorial Woodlands has partnered with Cruse, the UK’s leading bereavement charity, to organise regular bereavement walking groups.
Early Years practitioner Joanne Pear, the new manager of The Exchange day nursery in Bridgwater, wasn’t the only recent arrival: two colleagues from her previous setting decided to come with her to work for Mama Bear’s too.
A team of motivated staff from a Wellington care home has raised over £1,000 in sponsorship to help them realise their dream of buying two high-tech touchscreen tables for use by residents living with dementia.
Yeovil’s Mayor, Councillor Evie Potts-Jones, will be carrying out the official opening of the town’s newest care home, Chestnut Lodge, at 11am on Wednesday 12 April.
Residents from a St Budeaux care home had a great time at a special dementia-friendly fun day at The Anchorage pub in Plymstock.
The new manager of Avalon Nursing Home in Bridgwater says her personal experience of having a grandmother with dementia is what inspires her to ensure all residents in her care are treated like members of her own family.
A woman who used to work as a cleaner at a Wellington care home has returned to visit the residents of Camelot House and Lodge accompanied by some special woolly visitors.
Residents of a dementia care home in Wellington responded with lively interest to a recent visit by a local guide dog user, accompanied with her canine companion, who shared with them her experience of life with the support of a guide dog.
An activities co-ordinator with a romantic streak created a magical transformation at a specialist dementia care home Bridgwater on Valentine’s day, offering residents a ‘private dining’ experience so they could enjoy an intimate lunch with their loved ones.
With the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) warning that general practice faces a 'mass exodus' of doctors over the next five years, with almost 19,000 out of 45,000 GPs and trainees set to quit, a Cornish community has taken recruitment matters into its own hands - and voices.
A trip to see the Eden Project’s immersive winter music and light experience has put a twinkle in the eyes of residents living with dementia in a Plymouth care home.
The care team at Bridgwater’s Avalon Nursing Home has been named as Dementia Carer of the Year for the South West, beating off stiff competition from the rest of the region in the sector-leading Great British Care Awards, and will now go forward to the national awards event being held in Birmingham on 17 March.
Spotting your first grey hair should not be cause for self-loathing but rather embraced as a mark of coming sophistication, says mobile barbering pioneer Giuliano Dore.
A keen amateur photographer living with dementia is finding great joy in being supported to re-engage with his former hobby by staff at the home where he lives in Wellington.
Staff at Bristol’s longest-established fertility clinic are pooling their waste resources to create a valuable regular contribution to Bristol Children’s Scrapstore - and avoiding excess items going to landfill at the same time.
A Bristol couple whose son was conceived thanks to gynaecological and fertility treatment at Bristol Centre for Reproductive Medicine (BCRM) have been back to the clinic as they near the end of their baby’s first year to wish the team a very special Merry Christmas.
Local people have reacted with delight to the announcement that a new dementia care home is to open in Yeovil after months of campaigning.
Children at all 24 of the Mama Bear’s Day Nurseries across Bristol, Somerset and Devon had a lovely time helping raise money for this year’s Children in Need with a variety of imaginative and fun-packed activities keeping them busy.
