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Valuing death at home: making preparations
Health, Sports & Psychology

Valuing death at home: making preparations

...Care qualifications. In this second of a series of OpenLearn articles linking to The Ageing Well Public Talks (AWPT) Series structured around Five Pillars for Ageing Well that runs every year at The Open University, we are going to discuss how we could prepare for a home death. Earlier in the AWPT Series, we discussed Advance Care Planning presented by Barbara and Erica....
Diverse perspectives on health and illness
Health, Sports & Psychology

Diverse perspectives on health and illness

...care for the elderly with his care mapping program. He sheds light on the importance of engagement and agency when working with those suffering from dementia. Who cares? In a round table discussion, people acting as full-time carers for relatives and loved ones highlight the difficulties and the frustration of caring, along with problems faced dealing with benefits and...
A gift of life at the end of life
Health, Sports & Psychology

A gift of life at the end of life

...Care courses. There are currently around 7,000 people on the UK transplant waiting lists and over 420 people died waiting for a transplant last year (2021). The Organ donation law in parts of the UK has recently changed to an ‘opt out’ system. This should increase the numbers of potential organs available for transplant and help save the lives of people urgently...
‘Making Food Allergies Your Business’ Podcast Series on safer dining
Health, Sports & Psychology

‘Making Food Allergies Your Business’ Podcast Series on safer dining

...adults. With 1 in 20 adults in the UK with a confirmed food allergy (Food Standards Agency 2024), we hear from the food allergy community what they would like businesses to do to create more inclusive and safer dining experiences. [Icon of hands shaking together and the text 'Food for Everyone', advocating for allergy-inclusive discussions.] My name is Claire McGuigan and...
Accessibility and inclusion in digital health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Accessibility and inclusion in digital health

...care....Accessibility and inclusion in digital health: Introduction - In this free course, Accessibility and inclusion in digital health, you will consider some of the ways that people can access digital health in the UK and how they are able to take more control over their physical and mental health. However, for a number of reasons not everyone has access to digital...
Engaging with children and young people
Money & Business

Engaging with children and young people

...caring adult is not the parents, it could be a granny, a grandpa, an aunt, uncle, youth worker, nursery worker, teacher, health visitor, social worker, policeman, anyone involved with the child who can offer a sense of nurture that increases that child's sense of stability and security. The second resilience factor identified is having a sense of being able to overcome...
Understanding ADHD
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding ADHD

...adults diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a retrospective analysis’, The Primary Care Companion for CNS Disorders, 13(2). Johansson, J., Landgren, M., Fernell, E. et al. (2013) ‘Decreased binding capacity (Bmax) of muscarinic acetylcholine receptors in fibroblasts from boys with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)’, Attention...
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Education & Development

Primary education: listening and observing

...Adults and lifelong learning in the primary school: Introduction - You have nearly completed this course. Hopefully this final session will be useful to your thinking and your planning to work or volunteer in a primary school. In primary schools, we expect children to be learning and developing. What about the adults in school? How are they learning and developing as...