A Bard’s View on Dementia
April is Poetry Month, at least in the USA. Over here we tend to join in but maintain our British feeling of literary superiority because our lists of poems and... Read more
Art Class Brings Joy
Frome Nursing Home ran art sessions for their family members who enjoy putting brush to paper. The home always refers to their sixty residents as family members, which is part... Read more
Why Doesn’t the UK Have a Women’s Equality Day?
60 Years Ago, The RAF Told Wendy Mills, No Female Pilots, Now living in Frome Nursing Home, I asked her if things had changed The 26th of August was Women’s... Read more
The 5 pillars of Comfort in Dementia Care
Comfort is also one of the six emotional and psychological needs highlighted by Professor Tom Kitwood, to maintain a sense of well-being for anyone living with dementia here at Frome... Read more
Undressing the Uniform Debate
In a Nursing Times survey in 2014, almost 60% of staff consulted, indicated that they thought uniforms were an important part of the job. It is, like the uniforms, a... Read more
Music at Frome Nursing Home
Ever get chills listening to a particularly moving piece of music? You can thank the salience network of your brain for that wave of emotion. Surprisingly, the part of our... Read more
Star Chef earns Care Home another 5* rating
Virginia Woolf once proclaimed “You cannot think well, love well or sleep well if you haven’t dined well” If Care Homes are not the first place you think of to... Read more
July 7th is World Chocolate Day at Frome Nursing Home
At Frome Nursing Home, the residents are called family members and like most of the UK, many have a sweet tooth. In 2012, the journal, Hypertension, said that eating dark... Read more
Frome Nursing Home are Jumping For Dementia
Two of the marketing team from Frome Nursing Home, Somerset, have just raised around £1000 for the Alzheimer’s Society in two sponsored parachute jumps. Two thirds of those being cared... Read more