At the start of Parkinson’s Awareness Week, leading charity Parkinson’s UK has said that more than a third of people in the UK with the disease feel the need to hide their symptoms or lie about having the condition.

They feel the symptoms are not socially acceptable and may embarrass those close to them, and many people were struggling alone with their diagnosis, affecting emotional health.

Parkinson’s affects 127,000 people in the UK - about one in 500 people.

Read more: Why are people hiding Parkinson's symptoms?

• 18 April 2016

Congratulations to Veronica, one of our regular carers, who has just received her UK Nursing Registration and been promoted to Senior Carer at Absolute Healthcare.

Read more: Congratulations Veronica!

• 29 March 2016

The UK should be the most dementia-friendly country in the world by 2020, the health secretary has said. Jeremy Hunt said the government wanted to increase the numbers of diagnoses for people with dementia, raise awareness of the condition and encourage more research. However, Hunt is not without his critics....

Read more: UK to become most dementia-friendly country

• 16 March 2016

We all know how tempting it can be to have one too many chocolates or an extra slice of cake, even when we know it would be healthier not to! For people living with diabetes, knowing which sugars in foods are good to consume and which should be avoided is often difficult.

Read more: Sugar - the good, bad and ugly...

• 14 March 2016