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Find the best care home for Archers Jack Woolley
Peggy is struggling to find a care home for her husband,
Jack as he faces the tragic mental decline of Dementia, on the Radio 4
show ‘The Archers’. The sensitive handling of the story line
has been widely praised, but the show has only touched on the
difficulty of actually finding a good care home. Peggy has
very little information to guide her choice and may stick to the
familiar (but perhaps not best) local option ‘The Laurels’.
To create a wider discussion about the difficulty in finding care
homes, the care home comparison website www.bestcarehome.co.uk has
today launched a public appeal.
Can you help
Peggy choose the best care home for Jack?
If so, write an article, blog entry or comment on any internet forum
showing how you would go about finding the right care home for Jack and
recommending a real world home. The author of the best
article will win £150 and the recommended care home will receive a
donation of £150 to spend on resident welfare.
Richard Phillips, developer of the BestCareHome website says:
“Finding the best care home for a loved one is a truly difficult
task. By sharing actual experiences of looking for care homes
and showing how to use information on the internet, we hope this will
help real, rather than fictional suffers of this disease in future.”
The winning article will make a genuine contribution to public
understanding, but will also show signs of Archer’s addiction. See
articles under additional information
and conditions.
Send a link to your article, or a copy of the article itself to jackwoolley@bestcarehome.co.uk
before 6th November 2009.
Follow progress on Twitter: http://twitter.com/carehome and
post your own comments and progress with hashtag: #jackwoolley
ENDS
For press enquiries, please contact Richard Phillips on 07939 575 290,
email jackwoolley@bestcarehome.co.uk
NOTES FOR EDITORS
The care
home comparison website, www.bestcarehome.co.uk contains
details of over 18,500 care homes in England. Uniquely, the site
includes all 130,000 inspection reports published by the regulator,
along with star ratings and an assessment of performance over the last
three years.
Written: 21/10/2009