So, my site is up and running and I have a few pages operational, but I have struggled to find the time to do much with it.
But I am as keen as ever to move forward. Only the other day Radio 4 (BBC) had a whole article about a woman who was "planted" in a care home and shared her experiences of what it was actually like to be a resident. It is obivious that choosing the right home and deciding which kind of care you require is so important.
Saturday, 7 June 2008
Monday, 2 June 2008
An introduction to Which Care Home
A little while ago I had to help choose a care home for my grandfather. To make the decision to put him in a home was one of the most difficult decisions we as a family had to make. What was even harder was choosing the right home to put him in.
This was in the days before the CSCI's (as yet unproven) star rating system.
Doing research was actually quite hard. Care homes are generally happy to let you visit them to help you decide if they are right, but how do you even find an appropriate one to narrow your list down?
I discovered the internet was not especially useful, as care homes have been slow to get onto the web. That is why I decided to set up http://www.whichcarehome.co.uk/ to help others like me obtain reviews of care homes and to help care homes themselves establish a web presence.
The Which Care Home site is in its infancy, but I hope to log here how I go about building the site up, and how, in time, others come to find the site a valuable resource.
This was in the days before the CSCI's (as yet unproven) star rating system.
Doing research was actually quite hard. Care homes are generally happy to let you visit them to help you decide if they are right, but how do you even find an appropriate one to narrow your list down?
I discovered the internet was not especially useful, as care homes have been slow to get onto the web. That is why I decided to set up http://www.whichcarehome.co.uk/ to help others like me obtain reviews of care homes and to help care homes themselves establish a web presence.
The Which Care Home site is in its infancy, but I hope to log here how I go about building the site up, and how, in time, others come to find the site a valuable resource.
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