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Lost in the Community: A Brief History of Covid-19 and Residential and Nursing Home Care

May 22, 2020

Chris Phillipson, Manchester Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing (MICRA) So, the question (see blog on April 8th) ‘Can society …

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Age and Ageism during Covid-19

May 1, 2020

Written by Professor Sarah Vickerstaff, University of Kent. This blog was first published on 21 April 2020 on the Equality …

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Sheila Peace; response to ‘care homes: don’t leave them to die’.

April 17, 2020

(Sheila Peace, Emeritus Professor of Social Care, Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies, The Open University). Today’s Evening Standard …

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Covid-19 and the crisis in residential and nursing home care

April 8, 2020

Posted by Chris Phillipson, Manchester Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Ageing (MICRA) Can society be trusted to run care homes? …

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Covid-19: Statement from the President and Members of the National Executive Committee of the British Society of Gerontology

March 21, 2020

A pdf of this statement can be downloaded from the British Society of Gerontology website We urge the Government to …

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Arts & Aging Day Canada 2020 – an interview with BSG Creative Ageing SIG representative: Kate Dupuis

March 21, 2020

This interview is with Kate Dupuis, Canadian Representative & NEW Blog Editor of the Creative Ageing SIG. Kate spoke to …

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A dose of realism – Achieving continence for care home residents living with dementia

December 4, 2017

Incontinence, particularly faecal incontinence (FI) is distressing, humiliating and potentially stigmatising for any adult and managing another adult’s excrement can …

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