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Social Care: Past and Present
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social Care: Past and Present

...with the opportunity to trade skills and goods without cash changing hands was developed into the LETS Scheme Investigating Adult Abuse Personal accounts by carers regarding their experiences and views of care and abuse Inspecting a Nursing Home The inspection of a nursing home for older people carried out by an informal inspection party and the resulting impressions...
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Do challenges make learning more fulfilling - or off-putting?
Education & Development

Do challenges make learning more fulfilling - or off-putting?

...adults of various ages, genders and backgrounds their ideas about what ease and difficulty imply. We then asked about 200 of them to perform a complicated cognitive task in which some items were relatively easy to solve and others were quite difficult. We found that the people who performed better on the task were the ones who felt that difficult does not mean impossible...
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Article 5 mins
Social work: Effective practice with substance abusing parents
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social work: Effective practice with substance abusing parents

...adult needs - however valid in terms of their disadvantaged lifestyles and economic circumstances and, as a consequence, lose sight of the child. In making an assessment, the key elements to consider are gaining an understanding of the child’s need and wishes, inter-agency information sharing, and working together to monitor and assess the changing nature of risk. It is...
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Video 10 mins
From dreams to reality: becoming a nurse and educator
Health, Sports & Psychology

From dreams to reality: becoming a nurse and educator

...Adult Nursing Diploma. I had been recommended for this programme and was successful in getting a place. I remember receiving the phone call from my line manager and screaming down the phone. I had just woken up from a night shift! Panic set in again as I knew it wasn’t going to be easy, but I was determined to get through it. At last, my dream had come true. The Open...
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Article 5 mins
The science of genetics
Nature & Environment

The science of genetics

...adult human being, these chromosomes are replicated and equally partitioned between each cell, so that each cell of the adult individual has the same set of chromosomes, the same set of genes - two sets of chromosomes, two copies of each gene. Along the length of DNA in each chromosome are these units called genes, which is why DNA is referred to as the genetic material....
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Article 10 mins
How can the arts improve health and wellbeing?
History & The Arts

How can the arts improve health and wellbeing?

...adults with physical and mental health conditions, to people with age-related reduced mobility and dementia. [Art therapy lesson between young student with Downs Syndrome and a teacher] A wealth of research has investigated the ways in which the brain, and other parts of the body, respond to the arts. Many art forms trigger both intellectual and multi-sensory responses,...
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Social media and networks in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social media and networks in health and social care

...adults (91%) in the UK use the internet and adults with disabilities are increasing their use of the internet too (78% of those with reported disability use the internet). Adults aged 65 years or over who report using the internet is also increasing year-on-year (Office of National Statistics (ONS), 2019a). Email is one of the most common uses of the internet used by...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Climate justice for the next generation
Education & Development

Climate justice for the next generation

...adults had in fulfilling those rights (Box 1) . Box 1 Declaration of the Rights of the Child (1924) The child must be given the means requisite for its normal development, both materially and spiritually. The child that is hungry must be fed, the child that is sick must be nursed, the child that is backward must be helped, the delinquent child must be reclaimed, and the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs