News and events
Appearance on Sky News
Appearance on Sky News The daughter of one of our clients recently appeared on Sky News, urging people to discuss care with their elderly loved ones early on, in light of new research revealing that 81% of Brits are reluctant to have the ‘care conversation’.
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Parkinson's Explained Workshops
Some of our lovely CAREGiver's have recently completed the UK Parkinson's Explained Workshops with UK Parkinson's Excellence Network!
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Anniversary Cream Tea for Jay!
1 year already?! This week we delivered a treat to Jay for her 1 year anniversary.
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Congratulations to our Director Lynn!!
Lynn has been awarded the English Veteran's Award: Leaver to Leader!
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Cycling Without Age In Tavistock
The Cycling Without Age Trishaw came to Tavistock and our Directors Lynn and Mike Roddy piloted folk from the Tavistock Memory Cafe around the Meadowlands.
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App of the month for September
This month we are talking about the increasingly popular 'getUBetter' app...
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This week's Praiseworthy Certificates!
This week's Praiseworthy Certificates for Praiseworthy CAREGivers
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Introducing Praiseworthy
Introducing Praiseworthy- This is a new way we can recognise our office staff and CAREGivers hard work!
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Welcome Fleuria!
A warm welcome to Fleuria, who joined with the kickstart scheme this week!
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Armed Forces Covenant Bronze Award
We have been awarded the Bronze Award for our support of the Armed Forces Community. Very proud to be supporting all who serve.
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Welcoming our CAREGiver Experience Manager, Hayley
Welcoming our new CAREGiver Experience Manager, Hayley, to our Home Instead family.
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City & Guilds Assured Dementia Programme Certificates
Celebrating our CAREGivers training programme achievements!
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Our App of the Month for July
ORCHA provides many health care support apps. July's app of the month is CogniCare - an app to support dementia care.
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Our Recommended Read
Our Recommended Read - Contented Dementia Dementia is a little understood and currently incurable illness, but much can be done to maximise the quality of life for people with the condition. Contented Dementia - by clinical psychologist and bestselling author Oliver James - outlines a groundbreaking and practical method for managing dementia that will allow both sufferer and carer to maintain the highest possible quality of life, throughout every stage of the illness. A person with dementia will experience random and increasingly frequent memory blanks relating to recent events. Feelings, however, remain intact, as do memories of past events and both can be used in a special way to substitute for more recent information that has been lost. The SPECAL method (Specialized Early Care for Alzheimer's) outlined in this book works by creating links between past memories and the routine activities of daily life in the present. Drawing on real-life examples and user-friendly tried-and
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Above and Beyond
Congratulations to Sarah, who received our CAREGiver Above and Beyond award this week!
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Top 20 Home Care Provider Awards 2021
Home Instead Tavistock and Tamar Valley reaches top 20 home care providers 2021!
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Above and Beyond for BBC Click!
A huge thank you to Sue who went Above and Beyond for our feature on BBC Click.
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Tavistock Home Instead on BBC Click!
Home Instead helps to demonstrate the positive impact of Anthropos' technology within care within the episode 'Hacking your Health'.
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Mental Health Awareness Week: A Reflection.
To conclude mental health awareness week, we reflect on everymind's daily guide!
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Tavistock Memory Café
Tavistock Memory Café - Dementia Action Week on Bedford Square 18th and 21st May 2021!
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CAREGiver Oscars
We so appreciate what our CAREGivers do for our clients. We held the CAREGiver Oscars to celebrate their contribution.
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Easter Egg Surprise
This year we are surprising our CAREGivers with Easter eggs. They are amazing and deserve a treat!
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Our amazing PEAQ 2021 results!
Click in to see some of the amazing results - we are so proud.
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Facebook Portal
Just preparing a Facebook Portal so a beneficiary can join the Talking Therapy we begin next week as a partnership between Memory Matters, Home Instead and Tavistock Dementia Alliance. #dementia #livewell
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Christmas Jumper Day!!
Today is Christmas Jumper Day, we had lunch & Gifts, thank you Lynn & Mike, and then Secret Santa.
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5 Xmas Activities for All Generations
Christmas this year will undoubtedly be different. With smaller gatherings, social distancing, and the challenge of showing loved ones you care, whilst still protecting them, it might feel really difficult.
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Have you seen Stanley and Christine?
Stanley & Christine's story is now being shown on TV, ITV, Channel 4 and Sky. It is such a moving story and goes to show there is no place like home!
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Silver Stories
Home Instead Senior Care Tavistock are excited to announce their new partnership with Silver Stories, a nationwide charity which pairs together seniors and children, getting the child to read a story or a poem to an elderly person on the phone.
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Virtual Cognitive Stimulation Therapy
Home Instead Senior Care Tavistock, Tavistock Dementia Alliance and Tavistock Memory Café have partnered with Memory Matters South West to offer new Virtual Cognitive Stimulation Therapy sessions for people living with dementia in the Tavistock area.
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Our CAREGivers go Above and Beyond
Our CAREGivers always go Above and Beyond for our Clients
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Professional Care Workers Week 1-4 September
Next week it's (1st – 4th September) is Professional Care Worker’s Week when the social care sector will come together to celebrate and recognise care workers and the fantastic contribution they make to the lives of so many people. Home Instead UK CEO, Martin Jones, is a Trustee of The Care Workers’ Charity who organise the week. Martin will be taking part in a (virtual) panel discussion on Tuesday 2nd to talk about the really important issue of recruitment and retention in home care and look at how care workers have risen to the challenges presented to them during the pandemic. Our team local have been fantastic as always. Speaking about Professional Care Worker’s Week, Martin said, “I am delighted to have the opportunity to take an active role in the Week. Our CAREGivers and carers across the UK have, without doubt, gone above and beyond during the pandemic. “There has never been a better time to celebrate and recognise the work that they do.” The overall theme of the week is ‘Respect and Recognition’.
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Proud to be Disability Confident Committed
So proud of receiving our Certification that Tavistock and Tamar Valley are Disability Confident Committed. Disability Confident organisations play a leading role in changing attitudes for the better. They’re changing behaviour and cultures in their own businesses, networks and communities, and reaping the benefits of inclusive recruitment practices.
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Finalist Again for Lynn
Lynn is a finalist in the English Veteran's Awards in the category the Leavers to Leaders Award. Fingers crossed for October 20 for the awards ceremony
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Finalist - Lynn Lifetime Achievement Award
Finalist in Lifetime Achievement Award- British ex-forces in Business Awards
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Local young students bring joy to Seniors
Letters from Students at Mount Kelly bring joy to Seniors during lockdown
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Wonderful work space - We are cared for
We were treated in the office by our lovely Owner Lynn Roddy to lunch - yummy ?? Thank you Lynn Take aways of course !
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Cupcake day for Dementia
What is Cupcake Day? On Thursday 18 June, people across the UK will get together to raise money for people affected by dementia and we knead all the help we can get to make this year bigger and batter than ever. Cupcake Day is for the bakers, the fakers, the buyers and the bringers. No matter how you host your day all that matters is you have some tasty treats (home-made or shop-bought, we’re not fussed!) and raise some ‘dough’.
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Looking After our CAREGivers
During this time, it’s so important to us that our CAREGivers feel confident and happy to be able to do the wonderful job they are doing caring for older people. So we carried out a survey to do a quick sense check of how they were coping at this time.
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We are in the Top 20!
It is so important to us that we provide the very best care in our community. So pleased to be in the Top 20 of home care providers in the South West
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World Dance Day
It's World Dance Day - let us turn on our kind of music in our own homes and enjoy the beauty of dance
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Thoughtful Community Kindness
Wow, how lucky we are! Thoughtful kind gestures come in the shape of sticky buns today - Kiera baked sweet sticky buns this afternoon and knocked on our door. What a sweet surprise - thank you Kiera.
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Sandra in the Daily Mirror
Our lovely Sandra appeared in the Daily Mirror last week. She does and amazing job and we are very proud of her. Here is our Care Manager with a copy of the newspaper.
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Plant a Flower Day
Plant a Flower Day - celebrate this day every year either indoor /outdoor to mark the near-end of winter
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Home Instead in Bude
We completed the training or some new CAREGivers in Bude recently and we are out supporting clients locally. We are based out of the Neetside Centre.
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We are Outstanding!
We have been rated Outstanding by the CQC. If you would like to read our report please follow this link: https://www.cqc.org.uk/location/1-5868324822
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Cycling Without Age
Lynn our owner is a trustee fo this charity and is fundraising to bring tri-shaws to Tavistock and Launceston.
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PPP 3 in 1
It's comforting to know that when Home Instead aren't with you or your loved ones, they can still get help.
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Team Player of the Year
Sandra Anstey was awarded Team Player of the Year at our recent Christmas Party.
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Our CAREGiver of the Year
Although all of our CAREGivers are wonderful it is nice to mark outstanding service.
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Our Christmas Party
It is lovely to get together as a team and to say thank you to everyone for their hard work. We celebrated at The Kitchen Cafe in Tavistock with yummy canapes and bubbly
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#BeASanta to a Senior
Christmas is round the corner and we’re all getting into the festive spirit. It is important to remember that lonely older people might not get the same enjoyment out of this time of year, which is why we are organising #BeASanta to a Senior! #BASTAS
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It's Selfcare Week 🎁
It’s #selfcareweek and Home Instead Tavistock and Tamar Valley want to remind you to take care of your physical health and mental wellbeing. Get out for some fresh air, or take some time to reflect and relax. Any time spent on you is time well spent!
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Cycling without Age
Cycling without Age is a nationwide initiative that offers free bike rides to local nursing home residents on a speciialy designed trishaw, tackling loneliness and isolation. Lynn Roddy, owner of Home Instead Senior Care, based in Tavistock, is Trustee for West Devon and East Cornwall.
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World Kindness Day - 13 November 2019
Make the world a better place - celebrate and promote good deeds and acts of kindness to all.
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World Pneumonia Awareness Day - Tuesday 12 November
Pneumonia is an infection that inflames the air sacs in one or both lungs. The air sacs may fill with fluid or pus (purulent material), causing cough with phlegm or pus, fever, chills, and difficulty breathing. A variety of organisms, including bacteria, viruses and fungi, can cause pneumonia.
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Have you seen Stanley & Christine around Tavistock?
Proud of our New branded car A huge thank you to Tavy Signs for the great work on our car. Let us know when you see Stanley and Christine around Tavistock and the Tamar Valley.
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Plymouth University Jobs Fair 2019
We had a lovely day chatting to students about becoming CAREGivers. We were really impressed by their enthusiasm and interest.
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Music Mends Minds Launches in Tavistock
Tavistock Rotary in collaboration with Home Instead, a Tavistock based Home Care Company are launching a Music Mends Minds group in support of those living with Dementia, Parkinson’s, acquired brain injuries, PTSD, or those living with the after effects of a stroke. This will be the first time this programme has been run in the UK. Music Mends Minds originated in the US and has proven to be a very successful programme supported by the Rotary clubs. Music has been proven to soothe, stimulate, and even unlock long-forgotten memories in people living with neurological conditions. We have all experienced that feeling of being transported back to a place or time from our past through a piece of music or a song, but for people with neurological conditions that experience can be particularly magical. Research has also shown that memories of popular songs can activate very specific areas of the brain, which seem to be particularly resistant to the damaging effects of dementia and other neurological conditions. This means that people who struggle to recognise family members, or even remember their own name, can often recall all the words to their favourite songs. The launch of MMM takes place at 2pm on 6th March at the Methodist Church Hall in Tavistock, and will run the first Wednesday of each month following. Norrie Philip- President of Tavistock Rotary said “We are delighted to be the first Rotary club in the UK to introduce this wonderful community project to Tavistock. We welcome you to come and make music with us and bring joy and happiness back into your life! Come and join us, sing songs, play instruments and enjoy a cup of tea. We thank Home Instead, for agreeing to work in partnership with us. For more information call Chris Ellis on 01822 616507 or visit https://www.homeinstead.co.uk/tavistock-tamar-valley
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Be a Santa to A Senior
Home Instead had a great day at Tavistock Morrison's. The community were incredibly generous gifting to our Be a Santa to a Senior. Thank you so much to everyone!
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Dickensian Evening
Home Instead Senior Care joined the celebrations at Dickensian Evening Friday 7th December 2018. The weather was kind, with the rain clearing for the evening. It was great to share some Quality Street with the community, dress up in some Victorian attire and accept donations for Be a Santa to a Senior.
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Dementia Friends
Home Instead Senior Tavistock and Tamar Valley are very excited to be moving towards becoming a Dementia Friendly organisation. Lynn is a Dementia Champion and Heather and Sandie trained recently. All the CAREGivers will be trained shortly and will be given extra training from the Tavistock Dementia Alliance.
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Tovertafel or Magic Table Comes to Tavistock
Tovertafel came to Tavistock recently for a demonstration, hosted by Tavistock Memory Cafe and the Tavistock Dementia Alliance. Lynn Roddy of Home Instead has championed this technology and funding bids are in! It is hoped that the Tovertafel will be our community in the New Year and be available in our local libraries and The Anchorage Centre.
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Ten Ways to Cope with Dementia as a Family
Ten ways to cope with dementia as a family. Every three seconds someone in the world develops dementia. A diagnosis of dementia is a daunting experien
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The Warning Signs of Dementia
The warning signs of dementia. Did you know that every 3 seconds somebody in the world develops dementia? ‘Every 3 seconds’ is the theme of World Alzh
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CAREGiver Training
We had an amazing group of CAREGivers who came for training last week. They worked extremely hard for 3 days learning about the ageing process, build
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Staying Nourished
Senior Snippets: Stay Nourished. Top Tips to Eat Well and Age Well. Food and nutrition play an important role in staying well. But many people lose th
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Care Manager Training
Sandie and Lynn were up at Home Instead UK National Office recently. Sandie attended the Care Manager course to become fully inducted into the Home I
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Plymouth's Celebration Recruitment Fair!
This week we went to Plymouth's Celebration Recruitment Fair, braving the sun and rain we met some wonderful people!
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Home Instead Tavistock & Tamar Valley's 3rd Birthday!
OUR 3RD BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION! Yesterday we were lucky enough to celebrate our 3rd birthday, and what a journey we’ve had…
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Local Recruitment Campaign on Bedford Square
Last Saturday Clare, Richard and Rebekah spent the day seeking potential CAREGivers within the local community!
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