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Care Bank
Care Bank is a new initiative that allows volunteers to earn credits for every hour of caring they give to a local neighbor. The credit can then be exchanged for a reward such as a free swim or class...
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Weavers
Weavers is an Australian innovation based in Adelaide to support new carers who can feel “lost at sea” when they first become a carer. New carers are connected with a local Weaver (or former carer)....
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Horsesmouth
Horsesmouth.co.uk is a safe, moderated online venue for informal one-to-one mentoring covering all the important aspects of life, from health and wellbeing to career choices, employability and business...
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Care.com
Care.com matches carers and individuals in need of care through an online marketplace. Individuals might need someone to help them with personal acre, or their weekly shop, or childcare or feed the...
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Fair Shares Time Bank
Fair Shares Time Bank in Gloucestershire supports older people through transitions in health in Gloucestershire. Volunteers sign up to the timebank to provide practical support for older people during...
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Trading Times
Trading Times is an online service matching carers with local businesses who need short term, flexible, paid work. The service is being prototyped in Barnet from March 2013. Trading Times provides...
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Wigan Creative Council
Wigan Council plans to devolve much of its £58m adult social care budget to service users, allowing them to personalise their own care packages. This will be topped up with Wigan Community Credits (a...
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TapCare
TapCare is a new service to enable personalised telecare. Users can ‘tap’ their smartphone against objects in the home like family photographs and the phone sends a tweet to family and carers to let...
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Ladder to the Moon
Ladder to the Moon transforms care homes into a Hollywood film studio for the day, allowing older people and their carers to discuss issues and challenges in a completely different way. The Ladder to...
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Outminder
Outminder is designed to support people with long term care needs through reminders and alarms set on their smartphone or tablet. The app allows users with memory problems (such as those recovering...
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Primary Care Navigator
‘Navigators’, based at GP practices, proactively find and co-ordinate health, social care and volunteer services to people with long term conditions, reducing A&E visits, out of hours calls to GPs,...
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Spots of time
Spots of Time have a mission to make it easier for people to put their spare ‘spots of time’ to good use in their communities through making it easy for others to share their time and talents with care...
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Yecco
Yecco is a free private social network that aims to make caring easier. It connects family, friends and neighbours of a more vulnerable family member in need of support an older person through a secure...
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My Home Life
My Home Life is a national movement of people involved with care homes for older people. They work together to improve the quality of life of people living, dying, visiting and working in care homes....
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Siel Bleu
Siel Bleu provides exercise classes in care homes to more than 70,000 people in France, Ireland and Belgium. They have been facilitating both personalised and group sessions for individuals,...
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HomeTouch
HomeTouch is the safe place to easily organise support for your loved one. HomeTouch has been designed as a senior care solution by physicians who understand the challenges of care in later life....
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Care Charts UK
Remember-I’m-Me Care Charts ensure that hospital and care home staff have the information they need to provide dignified and person-centred care, also enabling the development of a relationship between...
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Call to Mind
Call to mind is a specially designed board game that helps get to know and understand the thinking, likes and dislikes of someone with dementia. This tool also stimulates memories and encourages...
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Living Words
Started in 2007, Living Words is a pioneering arts charity which improves quality of life for people experiencing dementia in care homes and positively transforms attitudes to older people with the...
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Konnektis
Konnektis enhances the care of older people living in their own homes through better communication between their carers. We have developed a platform that replaces pen-and-paper communication with a...
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