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Quick answer: Common signs someone may need home care include struggling with personal hygiene, missed medication, unexplained weight loss, a cluttered or neglected home, unpaid bills, increasing [...]

Care funding in Nottinghamshire depends on two assessments: a care needs assessment (to check you’re eligible for support) and a financial assessment or means test (to check how much you [...]

Lowmoor Nursing Home in Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, welcomed Blue Light Card holders to its second free Blue Light Breakfast on Friday 5 June 2026. The event, held between 9am and 11am, [...]

Newgate Lodge Care Home and Lowmoor Nursing Home welcomed residents, families, staff and members of the local community to take part in an immersive dementia awareness experience during Dementia [...]

Lidder Care is proud to announce the promotion of two long-standing team members at Newgate Lodge Care Home in Mansfield, as strong community support helps drive majorexpansion plans at the home. [...]

If a family member is living in a care home and you are concerned that their voice is not being heard, or that decisions are being made without proper regard for their wishes, independent [...]

A best interests meeting is a formal discussion held when a person in a care home lacks the mental capacity to make a significant decision for themselves. Its purpose is to reach a decision on [...]

The appointment ends, you walk back to the car, and the word sits with you. Dementia. You may have suspected it for months. You may have been told it was something else entirely until now. Either [...]

A former Commonwealth Games swimmer who spent decades teaching generations of Mansfield children to swim has returned to the pool after Newgate Lodge Care Home helped make one of her long-held [...]

Pain is one of the most undertreated conditions in people living with advanced dementia. Not because care teams do not care, but because the usual ways we communicate pain, telling someone, [...]

Lowmoor Nursing Home in Kirkby-in-Ashfield are hosting a free breakfast event for Blue Light Card holders, following the success of its first Blue Light Breakfast in September 2025. The breakfast [...]

Finding activities that work well for someone living with dementia takes more thought than it used to. The right environment makes a genuine difference — familiar surroundings, manageable noise [...]