• You are our eyes and ears – a new tool for care at home

    We’ve produced a new pocket guide in collaboration with Sue Ryder. Our improvement team worked with Sue Ryder’s care-at-home service in Arbroath to develop and test a new way of documenting the

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  • Calling all carers who work with people living with dementia

    A research team in the University of Strathclyde want to speak to carers who work with people with dementia at mealtimes.


  • Innovative care at home

    Older people have benefited from a pilot project which saw Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) physiotherapy students provide care at home.


  • Crossroads Lewis Care Attendant Scheme

    A care at home service in Lewis has been graded ‘excellent’ by inspectors for the sixth inspection in a row.


  • Allied Healthcare (Edinburgh)

    An Edinburgh-based care at home service has been told it must make “significant improvements” by Scotland’s social care regulator.


  • Help to Adapt

    Help to Adapt is a Scottish Government initiative designed to help older people live independently in their own home for as long as possible. Link Group Ltd has been appointed to manage and

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  • Care UK Homecare Ltd - East Lothian

    A care at home service based in East Lothian has been told it must make improvements after the quality of care and support it provided was graded ‘weak’ by inspectors.


  • Absolute Care (Scotland) Ltd

    A housing support service based in Aberdeen has told it must make improvements after the quality of care and support it provided was graded unsatisfactory by inspectors.


  • Putting human rights and compassion at the heart of care

    People using care services must have their rights protected and should receive high-quality, safe, compassionate care.


  • Caring for people at home

    SCOTLAND’S social care regulator, the Care Inspectorate, says there has been a marked increase in care at home services achieving very good or excellent inspection grades in the past three

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