Care Home Management magazine's podcast

Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (CST) is the world's leading non-drug intervention for dementia, proven to delay cognitive decline by 4-6 months.

In this special podcast we talk to specialist Brain+ and its CEO Devika Wood, who explains how this digital solution is helping people living with dementia.

The therapy is delivered through multimodal group therapy, involving 5-8 residents, and recommended to be conducted twice a week ov...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is impacting on all sectors, and care is no exception.

In this special Care Home Management magazine podcast we discuss how AI is both an opportunity and a challenge for care homes.

AI has the potential to improve care-giving and the care business, but there are risks around data privacy, bias and the need not to ignore human oversight of any decisions made using the technology.

Join our expert panel of Ta...

Care homes can save time and money by digitalising their administration and, in future, having a better understanding of how artificial intelligence will change the care sector.

In our latest podcast ‘Digital Top Tip for Care Homes in 2025’ our experts discuss how care homes have reached different levels of maturity when it comes to digital transformation.

James Maynard, director of product marketing at Access Group, says providers w...

Our latest podcast looks back on the care home market in 2024 and explores the trends shaping the market this year.

The ‘Regional insights: The UK care market in review’ podcast dives into Christie & Co’s annual report.

The podcast provides valuable insight from Christie & Co’s experts who look back at the impact of last year’s General Election and high inflation which caused market uncertainty. In 2025 they explore the poten...

A care home’s laundry can be its Cinderella service – all work and not much fun. But when things go wrong, the knock on effects are often substantial.

Much has changed in the care home laundry. Machines have become ever more sophisticated in terms of power and detergent consumption. They can be monitored and possible future problems anticipated from many miles away.

Find out more with our latest industry-leading podcast wi...

As the media partner for the Care Home Awards, Care Home Management is delighted to bring you this special podcast to help providers celebrate best practice.

Join CHA commercial director Helen Warrilow and communications manager Rosie Pickering as they discuss why care homes should enter and how they can do it.

• Hear about new categories
• Practical advice on how to enter 
• Deadlines
• News of the Awards dinner in London in May
• S...

Care home recruitment and resident occupancy are hard for providers to stay on top of.

On our latest industry-leading podcast with specialist communications agency Conteur, we learn the secrets to boosting both.

Join managing director David Huckerby and account director Natasha Jones as they share their top tips with podcast host Alan Rustad.

They discuss:

• Why care home operators must guard against putting all their eggs ...

“Go to work on an egg” – perfect advice for care homes

The humble British egg has had a tough time of it in the last thirty years or more.

But the British egg is back in a big way. Packed with protein and vitamins but no sugar, it is playing a vital part on the care home menu – both as a cooked item in its own right or as part of dishes such as ice cream, cakes and mayonnaise.

In this special podcast we talk to British Lion Eggs about...

For a care home to remain viable it must maximise its occupancy rates. But keeping occupancy levels high is no easy task. 

In our special podcast we look at:

• How care homes can ensure they keep residency levels as high as possible?
• The importance of sales and marketing
• Turning enquiries into residents

Join Ali Powell, CEO and Founder of Commercial Acceleration as she talks to host Alan Rustad.

For all our ind...

In this special podcast with Towergate Insurance and Care England we provide some top tips to help care homes purchase the most useful and cost-effective insurance.

• Are you insured for the right things? Protecting revenue as well as the building?
• What about cyber insurance?
• What if you had a data health breach?
• Working with insurance brokers

Join our experts, Care England's social care advisor Richard Ayres and Towergate&a...

PR and marketing can boost your care home's reputation, which can boost occupancy.

In this special podcast we explore the benefits of promoting your home locally and how you can drive enquiries using strong  and relevant content in all your marketing.

Our experts provide some great top tips to help care providers improve their marketing straightaway.

Join Five On A Bike Group founder York Woodford-Sm...

Two of key elements to a successful care home are good leadership from the management team and a strong and loyal workforce to deliver the very best of care. 

But how do you achieve that?

In this podcast, four people with a deep knowledge of the legal, HR, and service requirements were brought together to discuss how owners and managers can inspire with the very best leadership, and at the same time get the best from their ...

Going digital must be a priority for care homes but it is a complex area.

In our latest industry-leading podcast we look at three specific areas to save care homes time and money:

• DSCR - improving outcomes for Care Providers & Service Users
• Improving transparency in the care home by removing manual processes, particularly around expenses 
• Digitalisation in workforce management, particularly the challenges with tempora...

Sustainability has never been a more important subject for care homes. 

Potential residents and their families are asking questions they have never asked before. And regulators, like the CQC, are including sustainability policies in their regulation procedures.

In a recent Care Home Management podcast, three people from companies providing services to care homes came together to discuss sustainability and how it is a subjec...

The start of a new year is always a time for looking ahead and also reviewing the previous 12 months. 

Every January Christie & Co, specialist advisor for buying and selling businesses, brings out its Business Outlook where it does just that. 

In a special Care Home Management magazine podcast, we caught up with three of their regional leaders, Rob Kinsman, South and West; Lee Howard, North and Midlands; and Martin Daw, Scotland.

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The Care Home Awards are benchmarks for innovation and excellence and the closing date for the 2024 Awards is the end of January.

Listen to our short podcast interview with commercial director Helen Warrilow, development director Matt MacNamara and event manager Rose Freeman as they discuss this year's awards for CHM publishing editor Steve Hemsley.
Find out:

• Why it's not too late to enter
• How the Care Home...

The start of a brand new year is always a time for reflection on what has passed and a look ahead to what the next 12 months will offer.

On our latest podcast, sponsored by Rotacloud, Care Home Management brought together two experts to look ahead at both what the Care Quality Commission’s new assessment framework will mean for care home regulation and whether operators are as up to speed as they should be with using digi...

In our latest industry-leading podcast, we look at the subject of insurance and why care homes need to be on top of their cover.   We talk to specialist Towergate and discuss:

• Why insurance cover is obligatory and essential for peace of mind
• How digitalisation has increased risks
• How we are seeing more claims against senior individuals in care homes
• How insurance can protect from reputational damage.

Join host Alan Rustad as he...

Running a care home with plenty of digital help, whether it be in the shape of the care given, the deployment of staff, or just bookkeeping tasks, has transformed the way homes operate over the past few years.

Tune in to our latest industry-leading podcast where are expert panel discusses:

• Are home operators now fully on board with using digital technology to truly deliver better care?
• Turning digital ambition into actio...