Grandparent’s Experiences of Kinship Care – Repair and Rescue, rather than Pleasure and Leisure.
So often grand-parenting is presented as a fun and fickle leisure activity of wealthy Baby Boomers. For many grand-parents, the …
Category Archives: Care
The (Not) Real Marigold Hotel – older people in India
It was with interest and a little yelling at the TV screen that I watched the second series of BBCs …
Housing Led Interventions can Help Older People Stay Healthy at Home
Not a week passes without media reports describing the range of pressures on the NHS and care sectors. In the …
Focusing on Older Carers: Exploring the Research and Practice Axis
The number of older carers is growing significantly in the UK; over a third of carers are aged over 60 …
Older people’s exercising of choice in long-term care: a comparative analysis of England and Japan
There has been, in recent years, an increasing emphasis on ‘choice’ for service users within long-term care policies in …
The Provision of Social Care in Extra Care Housing: Connecting Research, Policy and Practice
The ECHO Project (Provision of Social Care in Extra Care Housing) is a longitudinal study which aims to explore how …
The implications of Brexit for older EU migrants in England and Wales
As part of the UK in a changing Europe initiative, a research project in the Centre for Population Change and …
Making the Case for the Social Sciences: No.11. Dementia
The mission of the Academy of Social Sciences is to ‘promote social science in the UK for the public benefit’ …
End of Life Care: report from the SCWRU conference
The Annual Joint Conference of the Social Care Workforce Research Unit and Making Research Count at King’s College London and …
Social Care in the UK: Driving quality or political stagnation?
This blog was originally posted on the Work Thought Blog, Work Futures Research Centre, University of Southampton The adult social …
