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The UK Home Care Sector March 2019
By: Angela E Gifford
Posted: 21 Mar 2019
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Person Centred Care is not new, it is a thing of the past
By: Angela E Gifford
Posted: 1 Mar 2019
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Trying to Source Care in Rural Areas is Difficult
By: Angela E Gifford
Posted: 8 Feb 2019
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Care Workers. A Question Worth Asking
By: Angela E Gifford
Posted: 22 Jan 2019
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Relaxing Care
By: Angela E Gifford
Posted: 7 Jan 2019
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Christmas Present Ideas for Older People
By: Angela E Gifford
Posted: 12 Dec 2018
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Christmas, New Year and into 2019
By: Angela E Gifford
Posted: 30 Nov 2018
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The Status of Health and Social Care at the End of the Year
By: Angela E Gifford
Posted: 26 Nov 2018
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Abuse - older people have families, advocates or friends
By: Angela E Gifford
Posted: 21 Sep 2018
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Supermarkets: It is in their interest to help older shoppers shop!
By: Angela E Gifford
Posted: 3 Sep 2018
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A Thought to Address the Shortage of Care Workers
By: Angela E Gifford
Posted: 1 Aug 2018
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If an older person is asked what they would like for a cooked supper...
By: Angela E Gifford
Posted: 25 Jun 2018
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Looking for appropriate home care services is like travelling down a road paved with obstacles.
By: Angela E Gifford
Posted: 18 Jun 2018
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Social Care. The divide between Care Providers relying on a Government funded customer base and Care Providers in the private, fee paying sector.
By: Angela E Gifford
Posted: 29 Mar 2018
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Time to re-think the meaning of Social Care
By: Angela E Gifford
Posted: 8 Jan 2018
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Caring for an older generation will not improve until information about care services and all related factors are freely and visually available.
By: Angela E Gifford
Posted: 2 Oct 2017
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The Home Care Sector. Be Careful What You Wish For
By: Angela E Gifford
Posted: 29 Aug 2017
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Can You Train A Potential Carer To Be Kind
By: Angela E Gifford
Posted: 4 Aug 2017
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Social Care - The Forgotten Aspect
By: Angela E Gifford
Posted: 17 Jul 2017
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Six months into 2017 are you happy with your competitive edge.
By: Angela E Gifford
Posted: 30 Jun 2017
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Is there a solution to the shortage of care workers
By: Angela E Gifford
Posted: 24 Apr 2017
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The Unsustainable Care Sector
By: Angela E Gifford
Posted: 13 Dec 2016
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The Growing Number of External Recruitment Agencies Offering To Provide Care Workers
By: Angela E Gifford
Posted: 15 Nov 2016
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Fee Payers - The New Customers
By: Angela E Gifford
Posted: 11 Oct 2016
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Marketing and PR Workshops for Care Providers - Australia
By: Angela E Gifford
Posted: 4 Aug 2016
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Complacency is the Downfall of Many Home Care Providers
By: Angela E Gifford
Posted: 4 Aug 2016
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The UK Aged and Disability Care Sectors are in Crisis. Should Australian Care Providers Take Note
By: Angela E Gifford
Posted: 6 May 2016
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Caring is a Science but a Simple One
By: Angela E Gifford
Posted: 3 May 2016
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Care - How easy it is to lose your reputation and future customers.
By: Angela E Gifford
Posted: 13 Apr 2016
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The Reality of Our Care Services in 2016
By: Angela E Gifford
Posted: 24 Mar 2016
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Survival In The Care Sector Is About More Than Customers
By: Angela E Gifford
Posted: 15 Mar 2016
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The Care Sector in the UK: The good news rather than the bad.
By: Angela E Gifford
Posted: 9 Mar 2016
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Interviewing and Referencing Potential UK Care Workers in 2016
By: Angela E Gifford
Posted: 23 Feb 2016
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Do you ask for a price when you need a service?
By: Angela E Gifford
Posted: 5 Feb 2016
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January has almost gone – Did you make time to attract new customers?
By: Angela E Gifford
Posted: 26 Jan 2016
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The Need to Market to People Who Do Not Need Care
By: Angela E Gifford
Posted: 8 Jan 2016
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Complacent Care Provision Can Lose You Customers
By: Angela E Gifford
Posted: 26 Nov 2015
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The similarities between providing a care service and a trip to the USA
By: Angela E Gifford
Posted: 9 Oct 2015
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Ask yourself the questions and then provide a better care service.
By: Angela E Gifford
Posted: 9 Sep 2015
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How Do You Motivate Staff To Embrace Change?
By: Angela E Gifford
Posted: 25 Aug 2015
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Australian Care Sector 2015
By: Angela E Gifford
Posted: 19 Jun 2015
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Differentiating your Care Organisation from the Crowd
By: Angela E Gifford
Posted: 2 Jun 2015
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Care Workers and Appropriate Training
By: Angela E Gifford
Posted: 18 May 2015
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In a Consumer Directed World – What is Your Organisation Offering?
By: Angela E Gifford
Posted: 23 Oct 2014
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Customers pay your wages and potential customers need to be converted to your customers to continue the process
By: Angela E Gifford
Posted: 4 Sep 2014
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Caring for Older People in the Coming Decades
By: Angela E Gifford
Posted: 18 Jul 2014
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Providing Care in a Market Place - The Basics
By: Angela E Gifford
Posted: 5 Jun 2014
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When Giving Out Free Pens, Mints And Mugs Are Not Enough!
By: Angela E Gifford
Posted: 2 May 2014
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Working with the Consumer Directed Care (CDC) World in Australia
By: Angela E Gifford
Posted: 3 Apr 2014
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Aged Care - Information is Power but make sure it can be accessed!
By: Angela E Gifford
Posted: 25 Mar 2014
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Gateway to Global Growth
By: Angela E Gifford
Posted: 27 Jan 2014
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Care Providers - Are You Looking Forward To 2014?
By: Angela E Gifford
Posted: 8 Jan 2014
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Lessons Learnt from the UK Care System
By: Angela E Gifford
Posted: 18 Dec 2013
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What Makes A Good Care Worker And Why Care Providers Must Recruit And Retain Them?
By: Angela E Gifford
Posted: 18 Oct 2013
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Fee Paying Clients
By: Angela E Gifford
Posted: 17 Oct 2013
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Selling A Service Not A Product
By: Angela E Gifford
Posted: 27 Sep 2013
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Social Care Workers – Recruitment and Retention
By: Angela E Gifford
Posted: 15 Aug 2013
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Poor Care Workers - Why Does This Happen?
By: Angela E Gifford
Posted: 15 Jul 2013
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Definition Of An Older Or Elderly Person
By: Angela E Gifford
Posted: 3 Jul 2013
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Rhetoric Versus Reality In UK Social Care
By: Angela E Gifford
Posted: 22 May 2013
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Day Centres - The Need To Keep Existing Ones Open And To Plan For New Ones
By: Angela E Gifford
Posted: 23 Apr 2013
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The Four Phases of Care for Older People
By: Angela E Gifford
Posted: 26 Feb 2013
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Home care for an increasing elderly population - what does it mean, what does an older person want.
By: Angela E Gifford
Posted: 7 Jan 2013
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Is it possible to achieve caring with common sense
By: Angela E Gifford
Posted: 20 Nov 2012
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Be Prepared
By: Angela E Gifford
Posted: 29 Aug 2012
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HelpAge International
By: Angela Gifford
Posted: 17 Jul 2012
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Care in the Home
By: Angela E Gifford
Posted: 10 Jul 2012
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Care of the elderly - money may be tight but there is something that can be done
By: Angela Gifford,
Able Community Care, Norwich, NR14 8TZ

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Posted: 9 Jul 2012
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Increase in Numbers of Older People requiring Care
By: Angela Gifford
Posted: 15 May 2012
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The World Problem - an increasing, aging population.
By: Angela Gifford
Posted: 10 Apr 2012
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The Cost of Care - UK
By: Angela Gifford
Posted: 9 Jan 2012
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The Shortage of Domiciliary Care Staff
By: Angela Gifford
Posted: 25 Nov 2011
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Social Care Headlines From Around The World - November 2011
By: Angela Gifford
Posted: 21 Nov 2011
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Care For Older People in China
By: Angela Gifford
Posted: 11 Nov 2011
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The 2nd Annual National Disability Summit 2011
By: Angela Gifford
Posted: 26 Sep 2011
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