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More knowledge about dementia could help stop people “suffering in silence”, the Minister of Social Development and Seniors has said. Tinee Furbert appealed to members of the public after the launch of a campaign to boost support for people affected ...

The Inter Agency Committee for Children and Families has launched a training RFP. Individuals who provide training in target areas are invited to submit a proposal by Monday September 14th. More information is available online at https://iacbermuda...

Major investments in the island’s care home sector will be needed to cope with a “tsunami” of ageing seniors. Patrice Horner, of specialist financial advice service Senior Solutions, said the development of affordable options to look after the growin...

A rest home has been ordered to tighten its procedures after an elderly resident was found lying at the side of a busy road. The woman was returned to the home, where staff were not aware that she had gone missing. Now the Government’s Ageing and Dis...

Bermuda must develop a strategy to cut the cost of care for seniors and help families to look after their relatives at home, the executive director of Age Concern Bermuda said yesterday. Claudette Fleming said the organisation had highlighted the gro...

Letter to the Editor Dear Sir, Westmeath Residential Home has come to my rescue once more. This is the third time in four years that I’ve come out of hospital and needed a place to recover a bit more. As I live alone, I appreciated finding a bed on ...

The Summerhaven home for the physically challenged has been temporarily taken over by the Ministry of Health and Seniors, citing “a serious risk to the health and wellbeing” of residents, along with “undue hardship or the risk of harm”. Allegations o...

Westmeath, the island’s largest care home for seniors, has moved to counter perceptions of the facility as overly priced. Rising costs recently left the charity with no choice but to increase its rates by 1.5 per cent — but Barbara Lee, chairman of W...

A successful Bermudian-designed course to train potential dementia and Alzheimer caregivers is set to return after being adopted internationally. Carol Everson, of the Bermuda Legion, said that while 100 people went through the course locally to beco...

Immediate action needs to be taken to safeguard the island’s seniors according to advocate Carol Everson. Claudette Fleming, of Age Concern, recently said that some care homes appear to be unwilling to adopt tighter standards, adding that the charity...

Bermuda’s overburdened care home system has “collapsed”, leaving many elderly Bermudians “virtually refugees in their own country”, a seniors advocate has claimed. Carol Everson, a welfare caseworker for the Bermuda Legion, called for a drastic over...

Summerhaven, the private residential home for the physically disabled, will register under the Residential Care Homes and Nursing Homes Act 1999, despite calls from some residents to have it classified as an independent-living facility. While it is n...