Farhana Mann presents a helpful summary of a number of different tools that have been used in the study of social relationships, as they relate to health and social service use and cardiovascular outcomes.
[read the full story...]Measuring concepts of dementia in UK Asian communities
Caroline Struthers critically analyses research on a tool to capture understandings of dementia in UK South Asian communities and wonders about the application of the study to social care practice.
[read the full story...]Evaluating integration: instruments to track the complexity
Robin Miller tackles a systematic review of measures to evaluate integration in health and social care and discusses some of the challenges of integration.
[read the full story...]Which quality of life measure is best for care homes?
Clarissa Giebel interrogates a systematic review on quality of life measures for people living in care homes and discovers what’s best for people with dementia as well as those without.
[read the full story...]Quality of life and mental health: What questions should we ask?
In his debut blog, Martin Webber, Reader in Social Work at the University of York, asks how we can meaningfully measure quality of life with and for people living with mental health problems.
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