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Pharmacotherapy while ageing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Pharmacotherapy while ageing

...Social Care qualifications. In addition to that, we may already know that as we grow older, we are at higher risk of having multiple long-term health conditions, which we call polymorbidity. This often leads to the need to take several different medications in one to treat each condition (what we call polypharmacy). With all age-related changes that might be already...
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The importance of education for students in secure environments
Education & Development

The importance of education for students in secure environments

...social movement and not just a university’ (Live and Learn – The Open University Strategy 2022 to 2027). For students in secure environments the benefits of education may include ‘escapism’ as they face challenging regimes and allow them to build social relations and embodied interactions. Education can seek to promote reflection and provide students with a highly...
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Medicines and personalisation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Medicines and personalisation

...social factors. For example, ‘patient activation’ is a term used to describe how involved a person can be in decisions and the extent to which they can self-manage their health. Sharing decision-making between an individual and a professional allows the clinical evidence to be used alongside someone’s lived experience of drug treatment. It is not unusual to see...
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Living History: Life as a Railway Worker During the 2020–21 COVID-19 Global Pandemic
Society, Politics & Law

Living History: Life as a Railway Worker During the 2020–21 COVID-19 Global Pandemic

...Social Sciences courses. Background 2020 and 2021 have been described as years like no other; “unprecedented times” was a phrase often used as a way of capturing the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. But for railway workers working life carried on as normal in so far as they all booked on for duty, facing the public on a daily basis and carrying out their usual duties,...
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Children and violence: an introductory, international and interdisciplinary approach
Society, Politics & Law

Children and violence: an introductory, international and interdisciplinary approach

...social care practice. Following on from Kempe's claims that some children were routinely beaten and ill treated within their own families, other issues such as sexual abuse and emotional abuse have also come to the fore. The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) released a statement in 2002 which said: Home Office figures show that the rate of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Understanding your customers
Money & Business

Understanding your customers

...social issues by looking at how people behave as customers, particularly what they buy and how they use what they buy. Understanding customer behaviour is essential to effective marketing. As a business philosophy, marketing puts customers at the centre of an organisation’s strategy. It sees customer satisfaction and the long-term repeat business that should come from...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Understanding your sector Badge icon
Money & Business

Understanding your sector

...social and technological factors that could affect your organisation in the future. This will help you consider what opportunities might exist in your own job or elsewhere. As with Week 1, you’ll need the Toolkit or your notebook to jot down your thoughts and responses to the activities. By the end of this week, you will be able to: describe how a broad range of...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?

...social process, one that is shared among all members of a group and not restricted to a particular person, position or role. Activity 1: A model leader? Timing: 20 minutes Explore two notions which are frequently mentioned when talking about how to encourage inclusionary change without simply relying upon top-down processes; in particular: distributed leadership middle...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs