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Live-in care means a carer lives in your home and provides round-the-clock support, best suited to people with significant or unpredictable care needs. Visiting care means a carer comes for [...]

Mansfield and the wider Nottinghamshire area have a genuinely good range of dementia-friendly activities, including quiet swimming sessions at Water Meadows, dementia-friendly film screenings at [...]

Ken was born George Kenneth Carlin in Bulwell, Nottingham on 5 March 1929 to his parents, Vic and Phyllis Carlin. He grew up alongside his younger brother, Victor. Known to everyone as Ken, he [...]

Lidder Care is delighted to announce the arrival of a brand-new minibus, which will be shared across all its services including Newgate Lodge Care Home, Lowmoor Nursing Home and Home Care. The [...]

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 [...]