How has your practice changed since October 2012 if at all? The significance of that date is that, from then, discrimination on grounds of age in the provision of goods and services, including social care, became illegal. Social care has long been in the firing line for age discrimination, particularly in relation to care management [...]
This inspiring and remarkably well structured book will suit practitioners, students and trainees looking to gain a deeper and more detailed insight into the ageing process, writes social worker Brid Joy. ‘The psychology of ageing’ explores both existing research and contemporary practice around the psychology of ageing, allowing the reader to get a real picture [...]
Social workers and other care staff are being asked to consider referring clients to a scheme designed to help them stay warm this winter. The Health Through Warmth scheme offers help with repairs or installation of heating equipment such as boilers, or cavity wall or loft insulation. It is open to homeowners with cold-related illnesses, [...]
Demography, cuts medical advancement are pushing up demand for informal care just as longer working lives and changes to family life look set to reduce its supply. This issue requires urgent answers, argue Dr Mary Larkin and Dr Alisoun Milne. National surveys estimate that there are approximately 6.4 million family carers in the UK, an [...]
Blog updated: 1 May (11.07) I owe Liz Kendall a big apology for saying rather smugly that there was a mistake in this video from her. Bang goes my credibility on analysing social care funding! Kendall says very clearly that “more than £1bn has been cut from older people’s social care in England since the [...]
Monday’s Panorama on the abuse and neglect of dementia patient Maria Worroll by staff at Ash Court Care Centre in London has provoked much comment, on this blog and many others, but much of this concerns what the programme didn’t cover as much as what it did. I thought it might be worth picking out [...]
(Pic: An arts session at St Peter’s Residence, a care home in Lambeth, south London, run by charity Age Exchange)The arts can play a crucial role in turning residential services into genuine homes for people with dementia, says Professor Helen Nicholson.Over the past three years, I have witnessed many arts and reminiscence practitioners working in [...]
The Local Government Association has come up with 22 tests for the forthcoming social care White Paper in a report produced today, and looks like it will be scoring the government out of 10 for each. As I’m writing this as a timed blog, I don’t have a direct link as yet but will try [...]
My colleague Tristan Donovan has been reporting all day on today’s End the Care Crisis lobby and has now snapped a few messages that people have posted on a wall. Pretty powerful stuff.
[11.20am] Hundreds of service users are gathering in Westminster ahead of a mass lobby of Parliament calling for reform of adult social care, reports Tristan Donovan for Community Care. The lobby aims to highlight the need for extra funding and reform of care services for older people and those with disabilities. The event has been [...]
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It is written by Community Care’s adults’ services beat editor Mithran Samuel.
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