Jill Manthorpe welcomes a recent paper by Bows & Westmarland, which provides a very useful summary of research about the rape and sexual violence committed against older women in the UK.
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Clarissa Giebel analyses a qualitative study of how functional alterations impact quality of life in Alzheimer disease.
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Jill Manthorpe reports on an Australian qualitative study on what independent living means to very old people.
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Jo Moriarty reviews two cohort studies comparing experiences of caregivers of young onset dementia with those of later onset dementia.
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Jill Manthorpe reports an updated NIHR-funded literature review of how we can improve older adults’ experiences of care transition.
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Ian Cummins explores new research about community treatment orders and the paradox of personalisation under compulsion.
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Clarissa Giebel presents the findings of a small RCT that evaluates the impact of a social work care coordination intervention on hospital readmissions in older adults.
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Jo Moriarty summarises an Australian study which visualises conversations between care home staff and residents with dementia.
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Mike Clark summarised a recent qualitative study of carer involvement in care planning, and reflects on what has changed for mental health carers in the last 20 years.
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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.
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