News featured in March 2026 JDC
Sanctuary Care has published ‘A Lifetime of Flavours: Celebrating Food, Family and the Lives Behind Beloved Recipes’. The cookbook features 42 recipes from residents aged 70 to 105 and is described as celebrating, ‘The joy of cooking, memory, and continuity in later life’. The cookbook is free to download or can be ordered in limited print for a donation, with…...
Memory Makers, a new UK social-purpose organisation, has officially launched its pilot scheme to help care homes capture residents’ stories, voices and lived experience in a way that fits real care environments. The organisation, which is initially launching within the care sector but with plans to roll out in a community and domestic setting…...
An American real estate investment company, Welltower, has bought up Barchester Healthcare as well as HC-One assets, in deal worth over £6 billion. Barchester has over 260 care homes across the UK. The purchase is considered one of the largest care home deals globally. ...
The online care home organisation, carehome.co.uk, has announced its 2026 Top 20 Care Home awards: carehome.co.uk Top 20 Care Home Awards 2026 ...
Following the launch of ‘The Big Dementia Conversation’ in early 2025 (which we reported on here: https://journalofdementiacare.co.uk/care-uk-share-dementia-advice-as-part-of-their-big-conversation), Care UK has relaunched this awareness-raising campaign and released a new guide entitled, ‘Staying connected: A guide to dementia-friendly conversations’. The guide features advice on communication when a loved one has dementia. Jo Crossland, Head of Dementia and…
The Outstanding Society has published ‘The OSDF Language Guide’, the first output of their Outstanding Diversity Forum (OSDF). The OSDF Language Guide aims to help the adult social care sector better meet the needs of the LGBTQ+ workforce and LGBTQ+ people who draw on support. Sanjay Dhrona, The Outstanding Society Director, Diversity, Equality & Inclusion,…
The Local Government Association (LGA) has launched an online conversation to encourage the public to share their thoughts and ideas about the reform of adult social care. The findings from this conversation initiative will be used by the LGA to inform their work with the Casey Commission. Find out more and sign up here: https://lga.clevertogether.com/welcome
A new resource has been launched to help people living with dementia to feel more confident when speaking to their doctors and healthcare professionals about their medicines. Described as a ‘conversation starter’, the PRIME tool (Preparing people living with dementia to initiate conversations about their medicines) has been co-designed as part of the KIND program…
A letter led by the Spinal Injuries Association – with support from parliamentarians and charities including Dementia Carers Count – has been sent to the House of Lords, for the attention of Baroness Casey of Blackstock, highlighting continence care as one of the most neglected and taboo areas of adult social care. The letter says:…
Care England, in partnership with Be Great Fitness, has shared its second publication in the ‘From Inactivity to Independence’ series, with this latest report being supported by Lincoln Healthcare Partnership Primary Care Network. ‘From Inactivity to Independence: Measuring the impact of movement in adult social care’ shares new evidence showing that structured, personalised movement can…