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Care at Christmas

Care at Christmas

Christmas is a time for families to come together. For families with loved ones who receive care, organising Care at Christmas can be a bit more complicated than usual.  At Gardiner’s, our team will help our clients’ families to enjoy the festivities.  Please do contact Gardiner’s if you would like us to help you or […]

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Smiling

Smiling in care

Smiling in care is important – it is a simple way to help yourself and others feel happier. We love this poem by the late, great Spike Milligan. Smiling Is Infectious by Spike Milligan  Smiling is infectious,  you catch it like the flu,  When someone smiled at me today,  I started smiling too.  I passed around […]

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Staffing crisis in the care sector

Staffing crisis in care

You can’t fail to have heard about the current staffing crisis in care.  In many ways, the past two or three years have been the perfect storm.  At the start of this period, demand for care services was already significantly higher than the capacity available.  Providers were already struggling to recruit staff. Brexit Many care […]

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Lone worker in care

Lone working in care

As a domiciliary care provider, lone working in care and the safety of our staff is paramount.  At Gardiner’s Homecare, our staff travel to clients’ homes to offer help and support.  Whilst our staff have round-the-clock support from the off team via our on-call service, they are nevertheless lone working in care and therefore potentially […]

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Care Staff Well Being

Care Staff Wellbeing

The COVID-19 crisis has affected everybody, including Care Staff Wellbeing.  Many of us have faced significant challenges, or are feeling anxious.  At Gardiner’s we are always looking at ways we can support our workforce and will ensure a member of the office team is available for you to talk to, should you need it. This […]

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Dementia Walking

Dementia wandering

Often, a person with dementia may go walking about, this is frequently referred to as wandering. The term wander means to walk or move in a leisurely or aimless way and therefore it is perhaps a little unhelpful since people with dementia who go wandering will likely have a reason for it. Many of us […]

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Sunshire Vitamin D

Vitamin D supplements

Vitamin D supplements help to keep our bones, teeth and muscles healthy. Where do we get Vitamin D from? Our bodies create vitamin D from direct sunlight on the skin when outdoors.  From Spring through to the end of Summer, most of us are able to get sufficient vitamin D from sunlight.  However, from October […]

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Caring and seasonal affective disorder

Caring for people with seasonal affective disorder

It is important to think about caring for people with seasonal affective disorder.  The winter blues are common and affects people of all ages.  The symptoms of seasonal affective disorder include: persistent low mood loss of pleasure or interest in normal everyday activities irritability feelings of despair, guilt and worthlessness feeling lethargic (lacking in energy) […]

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VE Day

VE Day 75th Anniversary celebrations

Friday 8th May 2020 was the 75th Anniversary of the VE Day (Victory in Europe. Despite the Coronavirus pandemic and the whole country being in lockdown, VE Day was still celebrated! Main nationwide events may have been cancelled but many residents held street parties, whilst still following Government guidelines and abiding social distancing rules. Houses […]

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Call Blocker

Prevent nuicance and fraudulent calls by using a Call Blocker

If you or a loved one have been targetted by nuisance calls or scammers, you may which to consider using a call blocker. What is a call blocker? Call blockers deter or prevent cold calls from telemarketers and fraudsters.  The call blocker service intercepts call and will check the caller’s number.  If the call is […]

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Dementia support groups

Dementia support groups and services

This page details some of the Dementia Support activities and groups available locally. Singing for the Brain – Dementia Support group The Alzheimer’s Society Singing for the Brain groups use singing and other activities to bring together people with dementia or memory loss. Click here to watch a video of a group of participants talking […]

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Helping people to move safely

Helping people to move safely

If you are a carer you may well need to help the person that you care for to move around.  Helping people to move safely is really important so that you don’t hurt yourself or your loved one.   Consider if you get injured what would happen to the person that you provide care for?  Carers often suffer from […]

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