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There is a sad precedent of pandemic disease threatening the residents of care institutions – and of authorities not heeding the dangers.
The COVID-19 crisis has raised major questions about the viability of the economic, business and employment models that corporate and industry lobbyists are arguing for a return to.
The UK government is allowing care homes and hospices to reuse leftover medicines during the pandemic. Here’s why that’s a good thing.
The seriously ill and their families often want to protect each other from thoughts of death. Conversation about end-of-life choices are, however, essential to a good death.
Dementia villages and care homes that try and recreate the past are unsustainable.
A simple method could vastly improve the quality of life of those with dementia.
Researchers have developed a new profile system that can save time and money and drastically improve patient care.
Too much money, too few targets. Is the golden child of the 1980s starting to look long in the tooth?
Millions of people are affected by death and dying – but politicians don’t want to talk about it.
Sharing information would inform important decisions about elderly care.
There’s no ‘one size fits all’ approach. But a lot of little things – from colors to appliance noise – can make a big difference.
Putting CCTV in all UK care homes would be a breach of residents privacy and could have serious ramifications for the rest of society.
Older people aren’t all lonely for the same reasons – we need different solutions to help them feel socially included.
These days, you have to try hard to not come across a daily article or news piece about dementia, and care homes receive a great deal of negative press. The Care Quality Commission recently released a…
After days of heated debate over her appointment, Baroness Elizabeth Butler-Sloss has stood down as the head of a major inquiry into allegations of historic child abuse. Criticism of her establishment…
Care homes for older people are once again under scrutiny following a damning investigation on BBC Panorama’s Behind Closed Doors: Care Exposed. But if you really want to understand some of the complexities…
Most people would agree with Jeremy Hunt that isolation and loneliness are bad things and that we should try to make sure that older people (and everyone else) do not suffer from them. So far so good…
That the Care Quality Commission, the watchdog in charge of health and social care in England, is considering hidden cameras and mystery-shopper exercises in care homes and domiciliary care sounds plausible…
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Professor of Business Ethics, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
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Professor in Learning Technologies and Social Computing, The Open University
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