Frome Nursing Home Chef Awarded in Parliament
Ben Kerslake, the Head Chef at Frome Nursing Home, a 60-bed residential and dementia care home in Frome, was named as runner up in the 2018 Awards for Excellence in... 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 defined as A state of physical ease, free from pain or constraint. Comfort is also one of the six emotional and psychological needs highlighted by Professor Tom Kitwood,... 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
BBC Somerset Music and Dementia with Karen Tidy
A Dementia expert from Frome is promoting the use of music to assist those living with the condition. Karen Tidy is a Senior Nurse at Frome Care Village, the 60... 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