Our care & retirement living blog

In this article, by healthcare writer Declan Davey we’ll show you how you can use the advanced search fields in Autumna to filter your search to produce a shortlist of elderly care providers who meet your exact needs.

Brandon Lewis is our guest writer in this blog which looks at how coronavirus has brought communities together to help the elderly.

The summer weather is hit-and-miss in the UK, but we need to prepare for the possibility of a heatwave.

Healthcare writer, Declan Davey gives his thoughts.

Finding a care home is a daunting prospect and a situation that requires organisation, patience and a great deal of emotional strength.

In this blog we will attempt to answer this question and some of the many others that get put to us regularly on the Autumna elderly care advice line.

Callers to the Autumna care advice line are naturally worried, during the Coronavirus outbreak, about the safety of their elderly loved ones. 

A guest blog from Peter Bewert, Managing Director of Meaningful Care Matters a leading care and organisational development group that specialises in helping health and social care providers to access a variety of support services. 

In this blog we will try to answer some of the more frequently asked questions that our Advice line is receiving about care homes during the coronavirus lock down. The situation is changing all the time though, so if you are worried about developments, then please call us on 01892 33 53 30. Our friendly staff will do their best to help you.

A question that the Autumna Advice Line is fielding on a more regular basis during the COVID-19 outbreak, concerns Living Wills - or Advance Decisions - and how to make them so that they are recognised legally. This blog gives a brief overview but will then link to solicitors, Parfitt Cresswell, for the detail.