1st paper on the experiences and contributions of cleaners, cooks, housekeepers and laundry staff in care homes during the pandemic is out!

It is such an important yet overlooked workforce, hopefully this makes a start in giving more visibility to their vital role in care homes.

📣🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️Join our next online CIRCLE Community of Practice (16 April 2-3.30pm) on staff recruitment in care. We will reflect on how we can ensure new recruits are LGBTQ+ inclusive. The fantastic Mark Wilberforce will speak about value-based recruitment.

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🚨This Wednesday is the Margaret Butterworth Care Home Forum 🚨 with Linda Birt Fawn Harrad-Hyde and Dr Cat Forward - an amazing lineup of care home researchers! Still time to sign up via the link below 👇

What an amazing list of webinars coming up! thanks to everyone who has embraced the Global Observatory of Long-Term Care so far, sharing your expertise and knowledge and making it possible to learn together and thanks for the support Care Policy and Evaluation Centre & Research and Innovation

Lots of good stuff here coming up

Excited to present this work for the first time, based on a LOROS Centre for Excellence research study. We draw on interviews with families of care home residents to highlight the substantial amount of work families undertake to support people across a care journey.
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Looking forward to the first #MBCHF of the year! Register on Eventbrite below 👇

Dream team! The Alzheimer's Society For Researchers sandpit event was so intense and interesting! Thank you for the opportunity, thank you to the mentors, judges and organisers, and the biggest thank you to my #DEMCOMM fellow team. What a fun rollercoaster ride with you 🎢 🤩

This is Sarah and Gemma, Wendy’s daughters. Our mum died peacefully early this morning. She wrote a blog post before she died so you can read about it from her perspective.
Sarah and Gemma

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Home Care Research Forum February 2024
14 February 2024 14:00 to 16:00
Online
Deborah Chinn - feeling at home.
and Helen M-Poole - supporting older adults with speech or swallowing difficulties
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Looking forward to our Dementia Community Research Network event on the 9th of May! We have a meeting with network members soon so stay tuned for more details about the content and venue!

Policy changes due in early 2024 mean Health&Care visa holders will no longer be able to bring dependents. What can we learn from the experiences, motivations and plans of visa holders & dependents already in the UK? blogs.kcl.ac.uk/socialcarework… HSCWRU

Great to be working with Dr Mohammed A Rauf MBE 🇵🇸🇵🇰🇬🇧, Rachel Horne and Claudia as part of the new NIHR Policy Research Unit in dementia & neurodegeneration at Queen Mary University of London.

Want to get involved? We'd love to hear from you: bit.ly/40TcOwh

Can anyone help Michelle please by sharing this link with #carehome staff, managers and volunteers in their networks?
National Care Forum NIHR ARC Kent, Surrey and Sussex Kent Research Partnership The Curiosity Partnership NICHE Leeds Prof Claire Surr 💚 🇺🇦 Dr Rasa Mikelytė (she/her) Rebecca Sharp (she/her) Nick Smith Rachael Carroll DACHA_Study Annette Boaz

NEW: ‘You’re out on a limb, on your own’: Social care personal assistants’ (PAs’) reflections on working in the Covid-19 pandemic ‐ implications for wider health and care services
by: Caroline Norrie Olivia Luijnenburg Jo Moriarty Kritika Samsi Jill Manthorpe
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Thank you Ruth L Bartlett & Rae Tobin for a brilliant #DemComm Winter School.

Great to be part of excellent workshops (and co-facilitate one), talk about research in the sauna... discuss each other's academic crushes (mine's Yvonne Birks 💜)... and join a SIG (or in my case 7!)

Fascinating discussion about #ResearchEthics at #DemComm winter school - looking at each stage of ‘research cycle’. Our table looked at data analysis. We critiqued structures & processes & asked whether ‘fit for purpose’ in 21st century & especially for #QualitativeResearch

There are worse places to be than the #DemComm Winter School!!! You don't need manor grounds to build #dementia #research capacity... but it helps! 😀 Ruth L Bartlett

New PhD opportunity at UEA “Holistic occupational therapy for resident wellbeing I care homes”eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…