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For many care home leaders, 2024–2026 has been defined by two pressures: rising staffing costs and the persistent challenge of empty beds. Even one vacancy can erase your margin for the month. Multiply that across a year, and the impact is significant.
That’s why, in our recent webinar with Dr Simon Leigh, independent health economist, we took a clear, numbers-first look at how digital Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (CST) is unlocking sizeable financial benefits for care homes often far sooner than expected.
Here is a full recording for anyone who couldn’t join live. In the 45-minute session, Dr Leigh breaks down the full economic model behind these figures and shows how to personalise it for your home:
Homes using Ayla, our digital CST platform, are seeing benefits across multiple operational and financial pressure points.
The biggest lever for any care home is bed occupancy. By enhancing resident wellbeing, engagement, and family satisfaction, Ayla helps homes reduce avoidable churn and fill beds faster, adding an average of £113k per year for a typical home.
Ayla supports cognitive function and independence, helping residents remain in residential care for longer. The result? Fewer early escalations into higher-cost nursing settings, delivering £79k in avoided spend for the average home.
Homes report calmer days, fewer behavioural incidents, and more meaningful interactions, all of which reduce stress and time pressures on staff. Over a year, this translates into lower sickness absence and significantly reduced agency reliance.
Ayla automatically generates session plans, records group attendance, and handles documentation, saving around 260 hours of staff time per year.
Some providers are also boosting revenue through Discharge to Assess (D2A) referrals, day placements, and respite care, simply by having a modern, evidence-based cognitive support programme that families and commissioners value.
If you’d like a customised version of the financial model based on your occupancy, fee rates, and staffing patterns, our team can build this for you. Please get in touch at hello@ayla-care.com.
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