Still Me vs Nourish: Choosing the Right Activity Engagement Software for CQC Evidence

Good activity engagement software should make it easier to prove the person-centred care your team is already delivering, not just log that something happened. If you’re comparing Still Me™ against Nourish, it helps to understand that these two tools aren’t really built to do the same job, and knowing the difference will save you from buying the wrong one.

Nourish tells you care happened across the whole home. Still Me tells you what that activity actually meant to the resident.

What Nourish Actually Does

Nourish is a well-established digital care management platform used widely across UK care and home care providers. It covers care planning, staff rostering, incident reporting, eMAR, invoicing, and compliance dashboards: genuinely comprehensive, whole-service digital record keeping. Nourish’s own materials describe activity participation as something that “can be logged and photographed” alongside cleaning schedules and maintenance requests. It’s part of a much bigger system, not a dedicated activity engagement tool.

That breadth is Nourish’s real strength. If you need one platform to run care plans, rostering, and incident management across an entire service, it does that well. What it isn’t designed to do is capture the fine-grained detail of a one-to-one activity session: mood before and after, what a resident chose and why, what memory or conversation came up, and how that ties back to CQC Regulation 9.

What Still Me Is Actually For

Still Me™ was built for a narrower, deeper purpose: turning everyday activity engagement into person-centred evidence. It doesn’t try to replace your care planning or rostering system; it sits alongside it, focused specifically on the part of care that’s traditionally hardest to evidence: meaningful, individualised engagement.

Where a general system logs “activity: bingo, attended,” Still Me captures who chose to participate, how they responded, what changed in their mood, and links it to the staff CPD training behind the session. It was built after I experienced my own twin brother Christopher’s care, and I wanted a tool that couldn’t just tick a box: it had to actually show that a resident had been seen as a person, not just present in a room.

Comparing the Two as Activity Engagement Software

They’re Not Really Competing for the Same Job

This is the honest answer: most homes using Nourish for whole-service digital care records aren’t choosing between it and Still Me. They’re deciding whether they need something additional specifically for activity-level evidence. A broad system like Nourish can log that an activity took place. It’s not designed to capture the individualised detail CQC inspectors increasingly expect under Regulation 9: what the resident chose, how they responded, and what it meant for their wellbeing that day.

Still Me sits alongside systems like Nourish rather than replacing them, focusing specifically on the part of care that’s hardest to prove: genuine, person-centred engagement, and the staff CPD behind it.

Which Activity Engagement Software Is Right for Your Home?

If you already run Nourish (or a similar whole-service platform) for care planning and compliance, and your activity records still amount to little more than a tick-box attendance list, that’s the gap worth closing. Activity engagement software like Still Me™ is built to sit alongside your existing systems and turn the work your activity coordinators are already doing into evidence an inspector can actually see and accept.

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