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A National Health Service or an International Health Service?: South Asian geriatricians
Society, Politics & Law

A National Health Service or an International Health Service?: South Asian geriatricians

...care has depended on their labour. Since the inception of the National Health Service, migrant doctors have been seen as an integral but devalued part of the health workforce. These doctors were necessary for its operation, providing a mobile army of labour in the lower rungs of a pyramidal medical hierarchy. Overseas qualified doctors, particularly those from the Indian...
The meaning of home in later life
Health, Sports & Psychology

The meaning of home in later life

...care continues to change as families, communities and society transform over time. Here the concept of home may take on new meanings in trying to maintain a sense of attachment, stability and refuge. Home has also embraced the technological and digital. For people in the UK, being able to stay in their own home in old age may involve the use of assistive technology. The...
Budget 2017: Instant reactions
Money & Business

Budget 2017: Instant reactions

...care Catherine Needham, Reader in Public Policy and Public Management, University of Birmingham Social care needs a big idea – long-term, carefully developed, cross-party – and today’s budget was never going to deliver on that. What it did deliver was £2 billion for the care sector – with half of this coming in 2017-18. That will come as a great relief to local...
How COVID-19 challenges our notion of a good death
Health, Sports & Psychology

How COVID-19 challenges our notion of a good death

...care about and what kind of legacy one leaves behind. So culturally and socially, to help us make sense of those concerns, we invest in ideals around how death and dying should be – a so-called good death. I’m not suggesting that there is one archetypical good death that we all strive to have. My own research about end-of-life care in England over the last 10 years...
A ‘disorder’ or just me? Life with bipolar
Health, Sports & Psychology

A ‘disorder’ or just me? Life with bipolar

...Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey: Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing, England, 2014. Available at https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/adult-psychiatric-morbidity-survey/adult-psychiatric-morbidity-survey-survey-of-mental-health-and-wellbeing-england-2014 (accessed 18/02/23) The Mental Health Foundation (2022) What it’s like to have...
Intuitive eating: a new relationship with food, or another fad diet?
OpenLearn Ireland

Intuitive eating: a new relationship with food, or another fad diet?

...adults will be overweight, over 1 billion affected by obesity, and 177 million adults severely affected by obesity by 2025. This conflicting information is staggering and demonstrates that weight loss products are not addressing the obesity epidemic that is being faced on a global level. Obesity is also an increasingly common problem in Northern Ireland. The latest data...
Encouraging book talk in the school library
Education & Development

Encouraging book talk in the school library

...adults we sometimes struggle to justify our feelings about particular books, but children are quite clear about what they like and don't like. It is possible to get children to discuss why they liked or did not like particular books and to encourage them to think more deeply about the books they've read. This free course, Encouraging book talk in the school library,...
Why are caves being used as hospitals in Syria?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why are caves being used as hospitals in Syria?

...care for some of the millions of Syrians living in hard-to-reach parts of the country and the 800,000 living in besieged areas, cut off from medical aid and supplies, electricity, telephone lines and food aid. Ingenuity and resourcefulness are core to these clinics, says Zaher Sahloul, SAMS senior advisor, in this interview. For example, with many power plants bombed out,...