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Meet the speakers for the "Technology-enabled Virtual Wards (or Hospital at Home Care) event, taking place on Wednesday, 11th June 2025, at The Great North Museum: Hancock, Newcastle upon Tyne. Registration open. @newcastleuni.bsky.social @nihr.bsky.social @medicalsciencesncl.bsky.social

NEW BOOK CHAPTERS! 📚 CPEC authors featured in the open-access 'The Care Dividend', exploring different aspects of projecting, financing + improving the quality of #LongTermCare.🔍 Access for free:👉 www.cambridge.org/core/books/t... #OpenAccess @adelinacohe.bsky.social @juliettemalley.bsky.social

Social care and implementation researchers at ARC South London have produced a new guide to designing and conducting implementation research within social care. #ImpSci 👉 arc-sl.nihr.ac.uk/news-insight...

Thanks for sharing this excellent work @donnawakefield.bsky.social. The suitability and experience of home is likely to be so influential to community-based care, but rarely discussed.

"One million pensioners are in material derivation meaning they cannot afford the basic necessities for a good life." Aideen goes on to point out.

Check out this call for abstracts: We are inviting abstracts for presentation. To submit: email [email protected] with the subject line: Abstract Submission – Virtual Wards June 2025. Closing date: Friday, 14th of March 2025, 23:59. @newcastleuni.bsky.social @medicalsciencesncl.bsky.social

I agree 💯. What's needed to drive change is both stories (vision) and meaningful data.

How to improve adult social care for #seldomheard groups News of @monicaleverton.bsky.social and Jess Harris speaking at a national NIHR event yesterday #dementia #homelessness - onward links to animations and infographics on our research findings @nihrsscr.bsky.social www.kcl.ac.uk/news/how-to-...

Great discussions today with a group of local home care organisations on care worker's roles in supporting people with multiple medications, building on work being done by @newcastlepsrc.bsky.social.

Final reminder for tomorrow's British Society of Gerontology - Technology & Ageing SIG webinar! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/british-so...

Still time to sign up to our @bsgtechagesig.bsky.social webinar on 4th Feb! ▶️Dr. Mélanie Couture: Using telemonitoring data to preserve the autonomy and safety of older adults. ▶️Dr. Minna-Liisa Luoma: Elderly care at home with age technologies and experiences to adopt technology.

The average life expectancy of people diagnosed with dementia ranges from 9 years at age 60 to 4.5 years at age 85 for women, and from 6.5 to just over 2 years, respectively, in men, finds this systematic review of the evidence Includes a visual abstract www.bmj.com/content/388/...

Forced Closures of Care Homes in England: How Much Does Ownership Explain Care Failure? ❗ Join us on Mon 27 Jan for the next #CareHomeMarkets + Regulation webinar feat. @andersb-m.bsky.social, @bengoodair.bsky.social, + Michelle Degli Esposti. 💡🏠 REGISTER: lse.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

"Tenemos que construir sistemas que nos hagan no tener miedo a ser una carga". Muy buena entrevista con @adelinacohe.bsky.social

Thanks for an excellent @goltc.bsky.social webinar, @thompa101.bsky.social fascinating to see how much can be learnt from tech to track people’s movements in #carehomes and mapping social networks, so many interesting questions! For anyone interested read journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...