BSG Conference 2017: Thoughts on the arts, care and dementia
A good conference can help you re-assess your own work. Perhaps not in an extreme way. Perhaps more as if …
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Exploring perceptions of dementia in Pakistan
Here in the UK we are becoming more familiar with dementia. There are television adverts alerting us that dementia can …
Everyman Theatre’s ‘Do Not Go Gentle’
At Chapter Arts Centre on 17 May 2017 Louise Osborn facilitated an intense and rewarding three hour session addressing dementia.
This blog reflects on excerpts of the Do Not Go Gentle play performed by Everyman Theatre and which was combined with workshops and discussions with a group of attendees.
This blog explores three ideas: (1) the power of the arts to explore complicated social issues such as dementia; (2) understanding that generation groups experience society differently and (3) that we need to engage more deeply with the politics of care.
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 …
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 …
On compassionate care
The Social Care Workforce Research Unit reports on the seventh Annual Joint Conference it held in February at King’s College …
They MUST be heard: Adults with Autism
“Adults with autism need to be heard and listened to”, stated one of the greatest researchers and practitioners in the …
Globalization, technology and care
The global demographic transformation of the ageing population means that the ageing debate is increasingly recognised as a common issue …
Let’s stop the ill informed language of intergenerational conflict, time for generational cohesion
Two interesting things happened today. The Office for National Statistics published data showing that we now have, for the first …
Health Insurance in Action: Why We Need the NHS
I am visiting a small city in New York State. Once one of the greatest cities in the US, it …
