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CNA
28-05-2025
- General
- CNA
New guide launched to protect community care workers from abuse, harassment
Community care workers will soon get better protection from abuse and harassment. A guide will be handed out to organisations next month, with policies and protocols to provide for a safer work environment. The guide was launched at an Agency for Integrated Care event, and is adapted from the Health Ministry's framework to protect healthcare workers. It will define what constitutes abuse and harassment, and recommend follow-up actions against perpetrators. The guide also contains protocols for home-based care, and special considerations for clients with dementia or diminished mental capacity. Alxis Thng reports.
Yahoo
21-05-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Waco Hosts a Community Care Fair
Waco, TX (FOX 44) – Health care resources that are available for the senior community were front and center in Central Texas Tuesday afternoon. The Community Care Fair was hosted by Grace Gardens Funeral Home in Waco. The fair focused on senior community and dementia care, bringing together 17 vendors. Attendees connected with resources varying from elder law, home care, home health, hospice, the VA, and the area agency on aging. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
BBC News
16-05-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Developer plans care home at former Plymouth quarry site
A developer is seeking planning advice on the construction of a new care home at a former quarry site in Care Developments sought pre-application advice from Plymouth City Council before submitting a formal planning proposal for the construction of the facility at the former Plymstock approved, the home would provide general residential care and specialist residential dementia care, with capacity for 66 residents, planning documents 50 and 60 new jobs would also be offered with "above average" wages for care workers, planning documents claim. The potential care home would be part of the wider development at Saltram Meadows, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service. The land was formerly the Plymstock Quarry, close to the Saltram National Trust estate, and planning consent was granted in 2011 for 1,684 homes, employment uses, retail and community approved, the care home would be ready for occupation by the end of 2026, said the developer.
