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Unequal Ageing: Responding to health inequalities in later life
Thank you all for coming along to our first Research and Innovation matters event of 2020. Unequal Ageing: Responding to health inequal...
- 19/02/2020
- Health & Social Care Research, Ageing, Big Data & Digital Health, Carers, Healthy living & wellbeing, Social Care
- Charlie Wilkinson
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Older people's experiences of mental health and dementia services
Healthwatch North Tyneside is the independent champion for people who use health and social care services in North Tyneside. Their purp...
- 17/09/2019
- Health & Social Care Research, Ageing, Social Care, Dementia, Brain & Mind
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Dixon Chibanda: Why I train grandmothers to treat depression
Dixon Chibanda is one of 12 psychiatrists in Zimbabwe -- for a population of more than 16 million. Realizing that his country would nev...
- 06/08/2019
- Health & Social Care Research, Brain & Mind, Carers, Social Care
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More than 1m childless people over 65 are 'dangerously unsupported'
More than 1 million people aged over 65 without children are “dangerously unsupported”, and at acute risk of isolation, loneliness, poo...
- 03/07/2019
- Culture & Society, Ageing, Carers, Social Care, Healthy living & wellbeing
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Have a 'Good Book' suggestion on personal experience of health & care? Add it to our list
To celebrate World Book Day (23 April) this year, staff from the Imperial BRC Patient Experience Research Centre (PERC) tweeted a list ...
- 17/05/2019
- Health & Social Care Research, Culture & Society, Carers, Social Care, Healthy living & wellbeing
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Social care Japanese style – what we can learn from the world’s oldest population
Japan has long been known for its widespread respect for its seniors and a powerful sense of obligation to care for them. The involveme...
- 10/09/2018
- Health & Social Care Research, Culture & Society, Ageing, Carers, Social Care