The R&RA Health and Wellbeing Campaign
The R&RA’s Health and Wellbeing Campaign
Around 400,000 older people live in care homes. Their average age is mid 80s, and rising. Many residents have memory loss, confusion, or dementia, multiple disabilities and complex care needs and there will be a continuing need for care home provision for frail older people. The R&RA Health and Wellbeing campaign is focused on frail and vulnerable older people who live in care homes. We believe they deserve the best possible care and support from their home and from health services. The R&RA is committed to helping residents of care homes and their relatives get their voices heard. The R&RA’s Health and Wellbeing Campaign is focused on how people in care homes live their lives. We are interested in the views of people who live in, work in and visit care homes for older people. In particular we would like to hear from you about how continence is handled in the care homes you know, and whether care homes get the support they need from health services. Contact us: |
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| "Why do relatives worry ?” Plenary Address to R&RA conference on Health and Wellbeing in Care Homes. |
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Keep Smiling
Oral Health and dental care Oral health plays a central role in maintaining resident’s self-esteem and sense of well-being. ‘Keep Smiling' offers a common-sense approach for those charged with looking after the oral health of older people in care homes’. Professor Jimmy Steele Order here: (link) |
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| Mouths, teeth and dentures: look good, feel better, eat well !
A paper produced by R&RA for professionals working in UK care homes |
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Caring for residents' oral health. A poster of good practice tips for professionals working in UK care homes Available free to download |
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Information for relatives The Living in a Care Home series is written for relatives and discusses key areas that cause concern amongst our callers. |
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The R&RA Health and Wellbeing Campaign. |
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