While turning on the TV or radio to hear about other countries’ COVID-19 experiences is likely to be more of a home rather than work activity, there is also some value in thinking about this professionally. Fortunately, some people have done lots of the heavy lifting for us, by working collaboratively to share their thinking. [read the full story…]
There is increasing interest in co-production in public services and in social care. This blog reports on a PhD study of timebanks which are now seen as an example of co-production but have a long history in being promising indications of mutual aid and reciprocal support between members of local communities. Social care interest groups [read the full story…]
Jill Manthorpe discusses a qualitative study which examines the experiences of frontline workers in care homes and home care
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Jill Manthorpe’s blog considers findings from a scoping review and institutional ethnography of the ‘information work’ done by family carers of community-dwelling older adults living with dementia, by Dalmer (2018).
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Jill Manthorpe considers working conditions and stress in UK social workers: survey findings.
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Jill Manthorpe discusses a qualitative study of care assistants experiences of looking after people with dementia in residential care.
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Jill Manthorpe discusses an updated review of the impact of the 2014 Care Act on social work in England.
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Jill Manthorpe summarises a systematic review of interventions to help homeless people at end-of-life.
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Jill Manthorpe on a mixed methods study of what people with dementia want from end-of-life care.
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Jill Manthorpe looks at a qualitative study of what motivates care workers and why care work matters to them.
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