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Working in the care sector is not just a job it is a vocation, and Coate Water Care is constantly on the lookout for people with the compassionate qualities needed for a sometimes challenging yet always highly rewarding career.

Across the UK, 850,000 people are living with dementia and soon, if predictions are correct, there will be a million.
In a series of interviews with the BBC, some of them, and their families, share their tips for living with the condition, how to talk to people with dementia and how they have learned to adjust to their changing brains.

Developing Alzheimer’s or another form of dementia is many Britons’ worst fear when it comes to ageing, according to a recent survey by YouGov. And it’s easy to see why. Outside the pandemic years, when Covid deaths slightly outnumbered dementia deaths (by 0.6 per cent), dementia and Alzheimer’s disease have been the leading cause of mortality in the UK

As a family-run care home Coate Water Care has always been proud of the way we are able to recruit great nurses and carers and retain them by offering positive working conditions and a range of opportunities for career progression. In fact, many of our senior staff have been with us for years after joining us as starter carers.

By 2050, more than 153 million people could have dementia, up from 57 million in 2019, experts are warning. The predicted rise is largely down to ageing and growing populations. But unhealthy lifestyles contribute too, the researchers say in The Lancet Public Health journal, as reported by the BBC.

Restrictions in place to prevent the spread of Omicron in adult social care, including at residential care homes like those managed by Coate Water Care, have been eased following the success of the booster roll-out.

Having two or more chronic health problems in middle age more than doubles the risk of dementia, according to a study that researchers say underscores the importance of good health earlier in life.

The Memory Café at the Wyvern Theatre in Swindon provides a facility where those living with dementia and their carers, friends and families can meet, talk and join in with activities with other people, as well as an opportunity to speak to support workers, medical practitioners, advisors etc for information and help.

As a family-run business with a caring vocation, Coate Water Care has always strived to be socially responsible and that definitely extends to being environmentally conscious and trying to implement sustainable practices.

Extra safety measures remain in place in Coate Water Care’s nine residential care homes in Swindon, Wiltshire, Gloucester, Warwickshire, Worcestershire and Hampshire, even as coronavirus restrictions have been removed elsewhere.