Council ordered to reconsider payments again CARDIFF: Pembrokeshire council has been ordered by the High Court to reconsider how much it pays private care homes for each resident for a second time. Seven care home companies took further legal action against the local authority. After a court hearing last year the council offered to increase payments for each resident from £390 to £464 per week. Care homes disputed the method used by the council... Full Story in UK Over 50s Housing Weekly     #549 / 20-12-11

Care sector snowed by misinformation blizzard LONDON: The UK public is being snowed by a blizzard of misinformation about the care home sector. And the English press has collectively moved into the market segment previously occupied by News of the World. Instead of reporting facts, newspapers have become purveyors of hysteria. Overworked adjectives and nouns used to record the Southern Cross fallout in the past week include collapse... Full Story in UK Over 50s Housing Weekly     #548 / 20-12-11

'Privatising care will lower standards' LONDON: The claim by The Guardian newspaper that 'privatising care will inevitably lead to lower standards' is social democracy flannel. Unfortunately it is a direct byproduct of the Southern Cross meltdown which has vested a plague of 1,000 boils on the care sector, and helped fuel the traditional political divide. The unions continue to undermine Four Seasons in an attempt to create a self-fulfilling... Full Story in UK Over 50s Housing Weekly     #547 / 5-12-11

Bureaucrats fixing problem that doesn't exist LONDON: A flock of Department of Health bureaucrats has embarked on a mission to fix a non-existant problem. The Government Department wants to legislate to prevent future care home failure. Such is the mindset harboured within Whitehall, they collectively believe this is an achievable objective. The advance guard of ten nabobs has already started a series of industry briefings. The drive to... Full Story in UK Over 50s Housing Weekly     #546 / 28-11-11

Care home part of £200m regeneration project WEST LOTHIAN: One of Scotland's largest regeneration projects has been launched with plans to create 4,500 jobs. Alex Neil, the Secretary for Infrastructure and Capital Investment, launched the Armadale Station development by burying a time capsule at the site in West Lothian. SDA, the developers behind the £200 million plan, said the mixed-use development is anticipated to create 4,500 permanent jobs... Full Story in UK Over 50s Housing Weekly     #545 / 21-11-11

100 new housing trends research to be released LONDON: A newly researched study on the 100 Trends in Over 50s Housing will be released at the Over-50s Housing Awards ceremony to be held in Toronto on November 28. The study focuses on emerging trends in the housing market in Canada. The previous options of nursing home, CCRC, assisted living, retirement community, and Long-Term Care are giving way to 100 new 'slivers'... Full Story in UK Over 50s Housing Weekly     #544 / 14-11-11

Alliance Boots to buy Healthcare at Home LONDON: Alliance Boots is in talks to buy Healthcare at Home, one of Britain's largest providers of in-home medical care. The retail and wholesale entity is vying with several bidders in the second round of the auction. Alliance Boots came close to acquiring Healthcare at Home in 2007 as part of a joint venture with United Drug. However, investment firm Hutton Collins beat Alliance Boots in that auction... Full Story in UK Over 50s Housing Weekly     #543 / 7-11-11

Budgets to underpin care home revenues cut LONDON: A crisis in social care funding since the coalition government came to power has left many elderly people in greater hardship, struggling with higher charges and less specialist support. Government figures show that councils' annual budgets for help for the over-65s have fallen by £1.3 billion since 2010, with cuts hitting nursing homes and support for the most vulnerable. Despite a promise by the... Full Story in UK Over 50s Housing Weekly     #542 / 31-10-11

Over-50s housing trends c.d. to be released LONDON: A specialist over-50s housing research C.D. will be released at the Network 2011/Awards event to be held in London on November 24. The C.D. contains a presentation on the 100 Housing Trends emerging in the over-50s market in the UK / Europe / the Americas and the Antipodes. There is also coverage of the best new housing designs worldwide and a section covernig top 20 research reports on over-50s housing released in 2011. Pre-Order Now     #541 / 24-10-11

Springhill building care home of the future ACCRINGTON: A £5 million 'care home of the future' is set to open in Accrington. Planning for the state of the art development at Springhill Care Home, in Fairfield Street, the largest investment of its kind in East Lancashire, began five years ago. Scaffolding is now being removed from the 3,000m2 development, ahead of its opening next month. The new care centre, which includes a new build, 46-bed... Full Story in UK Over 50s Housing Weekly     #540 / 17-10-11

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