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Living with Disability
Health, Sports & Psychology

Living with Disability

...care environments. From domestic homes to residential and hospital settings, we explore physical, social and psychological impacts and investigate the extent to which care environments are enabling or disabling. The album also contains a fictional case study which explores some of the issues facing people who are carers in their own homes. To complete the album, Joanna...
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Audio 2 hrs 14 mins
Young children, the outdoors and nature Badge icon
Education & Development

Young children, the outdoors and nature

...adults teach, care for and work with young children. The timeline at the link below sets out key voices of the past who had something important to say about young children, the outdoors and nature. Open the following link in a new tab or window so you can easily find your way back to the course: Timeline of key thinkers The voice most important to this course is Friedrich...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
How do you spot a stroke - and what should you do?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How do you spot a stroke - and what should you do?

...care. What is stroke? A stroke can be simply described as an attack on the brain. There are two main types. “Ischaemic” and “haemmorhagic” stroke. Ischaemic stroke is often caused by a blockage in one of the vessels that supplies the brain with oxygenated blood, which eventually causes cell death in the area of brain affected. Haemmorrhagic is a bleed into the...
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Article 5 mins
World Diabetes Day 2015
Health, Sports & Psychology

World Diabetes Day 2015

...awareness amidst concern over an escalating diabetes epidemic. Find out more about diabetes care here...Learn more about diabetes care The following video tracks introduce various aspects of a patient’s diabetes annual check-up. This material forms part of the Open University course Diabetes care. Listen to this podcast on type 1 diabetes Try a free diabetes course...
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Article 5 mins
Supporting older people with learning disabilities and their families
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting older people with learning disabilities and their families

...adult child is a major gap in health and social care. This is also reflected in the literature and what has been reported in other projects (Tilley et al., 2023). This is an area of practice that requires urgent attention. However, some of the family carers we spoke to, particularly those whose relative had made the move out of the family home, did have some useful tips...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
World Social Work Day
Health, Sports & Psychology

World Social Work Day

...care, select from our fantastic range of free resources on the subject. You can: Try a day in the life of a social worker with our interactive. Take our quiz 'How much do you know about children in care?' Listen to our podcasts on social work practice, work and law. Take a look at our free courses on social work and care. Take it further with the OU with our social work...
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Article 5 mins
Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare
History & The Arts

Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare

...care was unequally divided. The rich could afford care; working men, women and children were helped by the state; others had to rely on their own resources...Access to healthcare is important to all of us. Did the arrival of state medicine in the twentieth century mean that everyone had access to good medical services? If you fell sick in 1930 where could you get...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Cloning
Nature & Environment

Cloning

...adult frog into its place. The experiment failed when conducted in this way. However, partial success was achieved in 1970 when British developmental biologist, John Gurdon, inserted nuclei from advanced frog embryos rather than adult tissue. The frog eggs developed into tadpoles, but died before becoming adults. In 1980, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that live, human-made...
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Article 30 mins