28 September 2011

Dancers descend on care home – A tea dance was held at the Abbeycrest care home in Sonning Common. Residents made bunting to decorate the dance floor and were entertained by the Denton Dancers. Some residents also had a twirl.

21 September 2011

Special project to help dementia sufferers – ‘NEWSPAPERS’ recording dementia sufferers’ lives are being developed to help combat memory loss. Staff at Marston Court Care Home in Marston launched the newspaper project earlier this year to help trigger residents’ personal memories.

20 September 2011

Cupcake treats for residents – TWO Oxford mums gave a sweet surprise to residents at an Oxford care home. Julia Atkinson, left, and Linda Williams of Happy Cakes, Summertown hand out cup cakes to pensioners Lottie Perry, left, and Gladys Lipski at Isis Care Centre, Cornwallis Road, Oxford Julia Atkinson and Linda Williams visited the Isis Care Home in Cornwallis Road, Cowley, to chat to residents and hand out a treat to mark National Cupcake week.

22 September 2011

An independent style of living but with support – One in four properties at a new assisted living development for over-55s are available through shared ownership. Soha Housing’s ExtraCare at Windmill Place in Thame includes 40 one and two-bedroom apartments starting from £180,000.

12 July 2011

'Don't panic over Southern Cross' – The Oxford Mail reports that the councillor responsible for social care in Oxfordshire has called for calm after the collapse of care home provider Southern Cross, which ceased trading yesterday.

13 July 2011

OAPs stuck for six weeks after lift breaks again – The Oxford Mail reports that pensioners say they have been trapped in their own homes for more than six weeks because of a broken lift.

14 July 2011

Care home standards 'failing' – The Oxford Mail reports that inspectors have found that another Oxfordshire care home is not meeting “essential standards”.

11 July 2011

Family's anger as pensioner's Southern Cross stay ended in hospital – The Oxford Mail reports that an investigation into how a vulnerable pensioner’s two-week stay in a Southern Cross nursing home left her with acute kidney failure was kept hidden from her family.

08 June 2011

Care staff plan march – STAFF from a care home in Banbury will be taking to the streets on June 16 as part of a national campaign to end the prejudice faced by older people.

13 June 2011

Life expectancy is rising fast across Oxfordshire – PEOPLE IN Oxfordshire are living about four years longer than they did 20 years ago, leading NHS chiefs to warn services will be pushed beyond breaking point.

30 May 2011

Residents at care home treated to a show of stars – BY day, father-of-two Jeff Denton is activities co-ordinator at a care home. By night, he is Freddie Mercury, Amy Winehouse, Ozzy Osbourne – and a host of other stars, in one of Oxfordshire’s fastest, most frantic and crazily entertaining music acts.

08 May 2011

Fire at Banbury care home – An 84-year-old woman needed hospital treatment following a fire in her room at a nursing home.

12 May 2011

Greater Leys care home ordered to improve – AN OXFORD nursing home left pensioners in pain without their medication, and others struggling to get out of bed.

23 April 2011

Plans unveiled for a super surgery for Kidlington – A PLANNED new ‘super-surgery’ in Kidlington could become the new home for the village’s three existing GP practices.

27 April 2011

'Money will not solve bed blocking problem' – MONEY will not help to ease Oxfordshire’s bed blocking problem, according to a new county chief brought in as a troubleshooter.