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Dudley in national spotlight for care approach

debbielq wrote 7 hours ago: Dudley’s Making it Real approach to changing the face of social care in the borough has won praise f … more →

Tags: Social Care, Community care, residential care, nursing care, Learning disabled, Sheltered housing, Care for Disabled, care homes, challenging behaviour

Small projects leading revolution in social care

debbielq wrote 1 day ago: Small enterprises are helping to prepare the way in which local care services are delivered into Dud … more →

Tags: Social Care, Community care, residential care, nursing care, Learning disabled, Sheltered housing, Care for Disabled, care homes, CQC

Closing acute hospital beds for older people - the way to save our services?

adamgordon1978 wrote 4 days ago: Prof David Oliver is a Consultant Geriatrician in Berkshire and a visiting Professor in Medicine of … more →

Tags: Interface Geriatrics, Primary Care, continuing care, Demographics, Commissioning, Community care, End of Life Care, Health Economics, dementia

Seeking Asylum: Inside The Institutions

Arran Cross Photography wrote 4 days ago: Seeking Asylum  is an early-stage photography project by Arran Cross documenting the long-forgotten … more →

Tags: Photography, Mental Health, asylums, Asylum, hospital, Abandoned, Decay, ruin, Insanity

Oh dear, the Dilnot consensus is falling apart

debbielq wrote 1 week ago: The government’s Care Bill, outlining a range of issues including how to better integrate care, tack … more →

Tags: Social Care, Community care, residential care, nursing care, Learning disabled, Sheltered housing, Care for Disabled, care homes, challenging behaviour

Yes, it is time to support ‘unofficial’ carers

debbielq wrote 1 week ago: This weekend there’s been much news on the 7 million or so volunteer carers who look after loved-one … more →

Tags: Social Care, Community care, Care for Disabled, Elderly Care, nursing care, domiciliary care, Care for the elderly, Nursing Homes, royal college of general practitioners

In the Frame for May 2013

bethlemheritage wrote 2 weeks ago: This month, the Friend’s Secretary has chosen to highlight a painting displayed at the recent … more →

Tags: art 2, asylum closure, deinstitutionalisation, Potential Murderers?, Russell Barton

Mental Health in the NHS - a personal view

mindcurling wrote 3 weeks ago: It’s a common perception that mental health institutions in the bad old days were horrendous p … more →

Tags: Experiences, National Health Service (the NHS), Mental Health, NHS, National Health Service, Politics, History, System, patient

This Week in Mentalists - The 'Was Thatcher Right? Edition9 comments

markoneinfour wrote 1 month ago: Hello! It’s that @markoneinfour from that One in Four magazine. There was lots of things that I was … more →

Tags: this week in mentalists, Thatcher, malcolm tucker, authenticity, google trends, 28 days

Glenda Jackson on Thatcher 'I had to speak out to stop history being re-written'

Labour Councillor, Sefton MBC wrote 1 month ago: Glenda JacksonMP was unrepentant about her attack on the “heinous social, economic and spiritual dam … more →

Tags: Councillors and MPs, Glenda Jackson MP, councillor, Victoria Ward, Sefton, labour councillor, Crosby News, Waterloo News, Waterloo

The End Of My Nursing Days.4 comments

onethoughtfulwoman wrote 1 month ago: In my twilight days of nursing there saw an introduction of a laptop computer. We all had one provid … more →

Tags: achievement, change, commitment, Debate, development, Goals, Government, health, Human Rights

Great inspiration to involve community, art and caring

debbielq wrote 1 month ago: Residents at a newly-built Oxford care home have joined with children from a local school to transfo … more →

Tags: Social Care, Community care, residential care, care homes, community art, Poetry

Pesach is a time of memories...

jewishcareblog wrote 2 months ago: Seder night – a time to remember Jewish Care launches its Pesach Appeal: Our 2013 Pesach Appea … more →

Tags: Jewish Care, Top Stories in the News, UK news, London, Jewish, Age, Carers, purple thread, Old Age

News round up

jewishcareblog wrote 2 months ago: Top stories in the news this week: via – bbc.co.uk  guardian.co.uk  telegraph.co.uk jewishcare.org S … more →

Tags: Jewish Care, News Round Up, Top Stories in the News, UK news, elderly, London, Jewish, Age, Elderly Care

Let’s back the Good Care Week campaign

debbielq wrote 2 months ago: Social care operators have never been good at grabbling headlines for the right reasons. We are gene … more →

Tags: Social Care, Community care, residential care, Good Care Week, Elderly Care, nursing care, domiciliary care, Disabled, domcare. Care Talk magazine

Nicola Edgington: A woman who killed her own mother, but was released under British 'care in the community programme'.Has the county gone mental?

RyanFuller2012 wrote 2 months ago: Nicola Edgington was convicted today for murdering Grandmother Sally Hodkin, 58, and attempted murde … more →

Tags: My Writing, Politics, od ręki, Politics 2, change, Blog, Photo, Me, Mine

Therapy online for memory-loss people

debbielq wrote 3 months ago: A groundbreaking social media project which aims to trigger past memories in people with dementia is … more →

Tags: Social Care, Elderly Care, CQC, domiciliary care, dementia, Community care, "long term care", care homes, Nursing Homes

Time to ring-fence funds for carers’ short breaks

debbielq wrote 3 months ago: The government’s policy on care in the community is held together by some very special and often unt … more →

Tags: Social Care, Elderly Care, CQC, domiciliary care, Community care, "long term care", care homes, Nursing Homes, CQC reports

Disabled and poorly dressed

Johanna Kaschke wrote 3 months ago: Again this morning I saw a group of severely disabled people with their carers walking along a local … more →

Tags: Benefits, Disability, duty of care


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