Jill Manthorpe reports on an Australian qualitative study on what independent living means to very old people.
[read the full story...]Independent living: what matters most to very old people?
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Impact of young onset dementia on informal caregivers compared with late onset dementia
Jo Moriarty reviews two cohort studies comparing experiences of caregivers of young onset dementia with those of later onset dementia.
[read the full story...]Community treatment orders and personalisation: an unresolvable paradox?
Ian Cummins explores new research about community treatment orders and the paradox of personalisation under compulsion.
[read the full story...]How can we help people with learning disabilities engage more in meaningful activities?
Nick Burton reviews a US study of people with learning disabilities living in community group homes, who help show how well they engage in meaningful social and non-social activities.
[read the full story...]“It can still happen here”: institutionalised abuse of people with learning disabilities
Hannah Morgan reflects on a literature review of empirical evidence and wider social research, which seeks to place the abuse of people with learning disabilities in a broader cultural context.
[read the full story...]Can social networking alleviate loneliness in later life?
Farhana Mann appraises a cross-sectional survey of social networking site usage, loneliness and mental health in community-dwelling older adults.
[read the full story...]The impact of community well-being champions in African and Caribbean communities
Jenny Fisher examines a study seeking to understand the role and the impact of community well-being champions in African and Caribbean communities.
[read the full story...]Community treatment orders still don’t work at 36 months: OCTET trial follow up
Raphael Underwood presents the 3 year follow up of the OCTET trial of community treatment orders for people with psychosis, which finds no significant difference on readmission or disengagement for patients on CTOs compared to those discharged to voluntary status via Section 17 leave.
[read the full story...]Clinical commissioning for key health challenges in English cities
Caroline Storer summarises a recent NHSCC report, which defines how clinical commissioning groups in England’s core cities are responding to the Five Year Forward View.
[read the full story...]Collaboration, collaboration, collaboration
Kirsten Lawson explores the benefits of working across professional and therapeutic boundaries, highlighted beautifully by the recent COINCIDE RCT of collaborative care for patients with depression comorbid with diabetes or cardiovascular disease.
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