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‘This country couldn’t manage without care homes’

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Social care consultant and care home owner Mike Padgham takes issue with Alicia Wood’s argument for a world without care homes. He says replacing them with supported living would remove choice for families and the right care option for many people with advanced dementia. In a word, yes, we do still need residential care in [...]

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‘Help me address the desperate crisis in UK care homes’

The issues affecting care homes never seem to change. Why not? Today, the Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust’s John Kennedy launches a year-long inquiry into how to make residential care work. Ever since I first worked as a care assistant in the mid-1980s, care homes have been in some kind of crisis or turmoil. The issues [...]

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