What is Dementia? Dementia is the term used when an individual experiences a continuous decline in brain function in relation to a specific group of symptoms. Basic cognitive skills, like memory loss, thinking speed, [...]

The CareDocs Journey: Transitioning to Digital Care Management  CareDocs has a fantastic reputation among care providers. Many people will have heard of us because of our digital care recording and management software. Our user-friendly system, industry experts and [...]

Taking a Different Approach   Alternative and complementary therapies are increasing in popularity, with independent studies finding there are short-term and long-term benefits for certain conditions. However, most professional scientific bodies don’t recognise many as official forms of treatment. Given this, therapies are worth researching in detail before deciding whether you should introduce one into your care home.  [...]

What is a Senior Business Development Manager? Are you accomplished in the field of sales with senior level experience? Do you have a proven track record of meeting targets? Can you juggle driving new [...]

When CareDocs was founded, its focus was to help care staff provide a more efficient service to residents, who, in turn would benefit from improved care. Our mission remains the same today, but we have [...]

Intro Welcome to the first in a series of blogs where I have the pleasure of interviewing my colleagues at CareDocs to get to know them better and share their stories with you. I’m [...]

Why Should I Fix What Isn’t Broken? You can always improve upon performance even if your current system does the job just fine. Staying fixed to one method of working has its limitations and [...]

We’re happy to announce the release of version 4.3.6, our third software update in under three months with a focus on COVID-19. We’ve been working hard to deliver new tools and improvements for existing [...]

Bringing People Together Safely Care staff have been overwhelmed. Residents have been isolated. Families have been worrying. These are a few of the many impacts the coronavirus pandemic is having on the care sector, [...]

What is an Adult & Social Care Subject Matter Expert? Do you have a vast knowledge of the Adult & Social Care sector? Have you had experience as a manager of a care setting [...]

A Quick Look Tourette’s syndrome is more common than we think. Around 300,000 people in the UK have it. When most of us hear Tourette’s, involuntary swearing is probably one of the first side [...]

£600 Million Care Package Back in mid-May Boris Johnson announced a £600 million Infection Control Fund to support adult social care providers with the main focus being on reducing the rate of COVID-19 transmission [...]

What is Stress? Stress is something we all encounter in our everyday routines. Whether we’re at home, travelling, shopping or working, when too much pressure or too many demands are placed on us, it [...]

Following our recent COVID-19 Status Report feature release which introduced new tools to record and monitor COVID-19 symptoms in care home residents, a second COVID-19 focused update is now available (version 4.3.5). It’s now [...]

After a long shift, what you’re going to have for dinner is probably one of the last things on your mind. We know it’s important to take care of ourselves but with very limited [...]

Looking at the Facts Mental illness affects approximately one quarter of the UK population each year, with anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder among the most common types. Although the number of people with mental health [...]

Digestive Health - Taking a Closer Look  This year the World Gastroenterology Organisation Foundation (WGOF) placed the gut microbiome under the microscope to raise awareness of its many uses in keeping our digestive system and our whole body healthy. [...]

Helping Physical and Mental Wellbeing Through A Healthy Smile From the 18th May to the 18th June, the Oral Health Foundation is asking everyone to take part in National Smile Month to promote the benefits of keeping [...]

The government has launched a new platform to fast-track social care recruitment. Join Social Care, developed by Cera Care, is designed to tackle the staffing shortage in the social care sector, part of an [...]

Unwinding at home is a common topic in our recent blogs. The benefits of dedicating a part of your day for some relaxing you time range from improved mental health, to better sleep quality [...]