More Days Studio

MoreDays Studio

Evidencing Meaningful Activities And Wellbeing In Care Homes

Care plans are digital, medication is logged and the night is monitored. Yet the hours that shape someone’s quality of life are usually the least evidenced part of the day.

More Days Studio helps your team plan person-centred activities, record what happens in moments, and show the difference engagement makes, resident by resident, without adding another layer of paperwork.

The Gap In A Resident’s Day

Overnight, sensing technology quietly keeps watch. During personal care and clinical tasks, everything goes into your digital care plan. Then there are the living hours: roughly ten hours a day when someone is awake, out of their room, joining in or choosing not to. They’re the hours families ask about, and in most homes they’re the hours with the least evidence behind them.

Rest · about 8 hours

Monitored overnight

Care · about 6 hours

Recorded in the care plan

The Living Hours · about 10 hours

Where quality of life happens, and where the evidence usually stops

The care is happening. The proof usually isn’t. Spark Care works across the whole of that day, and More Days Studio completes the picture the rest of our technology starts.

CQC evidence for activities

Why An Activity Log Isn’t Enough Any More

Most homes can show that activities took place. A quiz on Tuesday, music on Thursday, a list of who came along. Inspectors are asking a harder question: what difference did it make?

Answering that well needs structured evidence that links individual people to individual activities and shows what changed over time. A tick sheet can’t do it, and neither can a folder pulled together the week before an inspection.

Showing the difference matters more than showing the timetable.

The shift in the question: from “did it happen?” to “what difference did it make to this person?”

How More Days Studio Works, From Knowing Each Person To Evidencing The Difference

Person-centred activity planning and wellbeing evidence in one place. It supports the people doing the work. It doesn’t do the work for them.

Knowing Each Person

Every resident has a Living Story profile: their history, culture, abilities, social preferences and what genuinely brings them joy. It stays with the resident when staff move on.

Activities Matched To The Person

Activities are suggested from each resident’s profile, with four levels of support, from independent to seated, high support and sensory, so they work for people living with dementia and those who rarely join a group.

Guidance In The Moment

Step-by-step guides cover materials, safety notes and gentle alternatives if someone becomes unsettled, so any member of the team can lead a session with confidence.

Recording That Takes Moments

Participation, mood before and after, and social connection are recorded in under a minute per resident. Declined invitations are recorded too, because choice is part of good care.

The Journey Score

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Participation, mood, connection, consistency and personal fit come together in one clear view over time. How it’s calculated is open to coordinators, managers and inspectors alike.

Visibility Across Every Home

For care groups, leadership can see engagement and evidence quality across the whole portfolio, not just the homes they visited last month.

Every activity comes with a clear plan to run it, so any member of the team can lead with confidence.

For activity coordinators

A Coordinator’s Day, Properly Supported

Activity coordinators carry a huge share of responsibility for quality of life, often with little structure, budget or recognition. Their work is also the least evidenced in the building. More Days Studio is built around their day, not around a report.

A morning brief with priority residents, birthdays and suggested activities
Activities matched to the people in front of you, with the right support for each
A few taps per person to record what happened, while it’s fresh
Living Story profiles that mean colleagues covering a shift can pick up straight away

Less writing up means more time with the people who matter.

Participation, outcomes and wellbeing across the home, recalculated overnight.

Quality of life evidence for CQC

Wellbeing Evidence For The Inspection Conversation

Under CQC’s Single Assessment Framework, inspectors look for care that’s person-centred, people supported to do things that matter to them, and leaders who understand how well that’s working. MoreDays Studio organises activity and wellbeing evidence against the relevant quality statements, gathered as care happens rather than assembled afterwards.

In Wales and Scotland, the same resident-level evidence is just as useful in conversations with Care Inspectorate Wales and the Care Inspectorate.

A straightforward note. More Days Studio helps you evidence the good practice already happening in your home. It doesn’t guarantee an inspection outcome, and no technology honestly can.

Better Evidence For Everyone Who Cares About The Answer

Registered Managers

Walk into an inspection conversation able to show, not just describe. A resident’s engagement over ninety days carries far more weight than “we know our residents well”.

Quality And Compliance Leads

Wellbeing evidence organised against the quality statements inspectors assess, gathered continuously rather than reconstructed under pressure.

Activity Coordinators

The work you already do finally counts for something on paper, with more recognition for a role that deserves it.

Families

Honest, specific answers to the question families always ask: what is life actually like here for Mum? Real moments, not generalities.

Evening activities in care homes

The Evening Gap

Many activity programmes wind down at teatime. Yet late afternoon and evening can be the hardest part of the day, particularly for people living with dementia, when anxiety and restlessness often rise.

Thoughtful evening engagement doesn’t need to be big. A familiar song, a hand massage, folding laundry together, a quiet chat over a hot drink. MoreDays Studio helps your team plan these moments around each person and evidence them.

The evening becomes part of the picture, not a blank space.

Each person’s best time of day sits on their profile, including those who come alive in the evening.

Completing The 24-Hour Picture

More Days Studio doesn’t replace your digital care planning system, and it isn’t trying to. It covers the part of the day clinical systems were never designed for, alongside the rest of the Spark Care portfolio.

Overnight

Fall Detection And Wellbeing Sensing

Earlier awareness of falls and changes in routine, without cameras or wearables.

Through the day

Charis Nurse Call

Alerts reaching the right person, with a clear record of who responded and when.

The living hours

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Evidence for wellbeing, engagement and quality of life in the hours in between.

Safer nights. More responsive days. And evidence for the hours that make life worth living.

Getting started

Quick To Start, And Built To Become Everyday Practice

Homes can set up their first resident profiles on day one, and Journey Scores begin to appear within the first week as evidence builds. Getting a system switched on is the easy part. Making it part of everyday practice is where Spark Care comes in.

Example first-week set-up

Day 1 · First resident profiles

Morning brief and suggestions ready

Days 2 to 3 · First activities recorded

Journey Scores building

Week 1 · Timelines and trends

Evidence growing in the background

Questions Care Providers Ask Us

What does CQC look for in activities in a care home?

Inspectors want to understand whether activities are meaningful and person-centred for each individual, and what difference they make. A list of who attended a session shows that it happened. It doesn’t show whether it suited the person, how they responded, or whether quieter and more withdrawn residents are being reached. Evidence that links individual people to individual activities over time answers those questions far more clearly.

How do you evidence meaningful activities in a care home?

Good evidence is specific, timestamped and linked to the person. It shows what was offered, whether they took part or chose not to, how their mood and engagement changed, and how that picture develops over weeks rather than on a single day. More Days Studio captures this as part of the coordinator’s normal day, so the evidence builds up in the background.

How should activities be recorded in a care home?

Recording works best when it’s quick, structured and done at the time, rather than written up later from memory. In More Days Studio, coordinators record participation, mood before and after, and social connection in under a minute per resident. Declined invitations are recorded too, because choice is part of good care.

Is More Days Studio a care planning system?

No. It sits alongside your digital care planning platform rather than replacing it. Care planning systems are built for personal care, medication and clinical tasks. More Days Studio is built for the living hours: activities, engagement, wellbeing and quality of life.

Will it add paperwork for our team?

It’s designed to do the opposite. Evidence is captured as a by-product of activities your team are already delivering, rather than through extra forms or end-of-day write-ups. Most of the effort it saves falls on activity coordinators and managers preparing for inspection.

What happens when an activity coordinator leaves?

Each resident has a Living Story profile covering their history, culture, abilities and what genuinely brings them joy. It stays with the resident, so a new coordinator or a colleague covering a shift can pick up where things left off rather than starting again.

Does More Days Studio guarantee a better CQC rating?

No, and no technology honestly can. What it does is help you show the good practice that’s already happening, clearly and consistently, so inspection conversations are based on evidence rather than description.

How quickly can we get started?

More Days Studio is designed so a home can set up its first resident profiles on day one and see its first Journey Scores within the first week. Spark Care can also support adoption with your team on site, so it becomes part of everyday practice rather than another system that’s switched on and forgotten.

Talk It Through With Us

If you’d like to see how More Days Studio works, or think through where wellbeing evidence fits in your wider quality and inspection picture, we’re happy to have that conversation. No pitch, just a practical look at where your evidence gaps sit and whether this helps close them.