What's it like living in a care home in Sandwell?

Report - 19 August 2017

Work by Healthwatch Sandwell has helped to inform a new national report on peoples’ experience of care homes. Healthwatch Sandwell have visited 6 homes in the last 2 years.

Between January 2016 and April 2017, local Healthwatch staff and volunteers across England visited 197 care homes across 63 different local authority areas, including Sandwell to find out what day to day life is really like for many of those living in care homes.

The Healthwatch report outlines key next steps for care homes in Sandwell, how feedback can be used to identify a whole host of small, low cost changes that ensure all residents feel ‘at home’.

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