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...Care courses and qualifications. As part of the Ageing Well Public Talk Series we explore how important it is to maintain well-balanced nutrition and hydration throughout our lives, as well as regular physical and social activity in older age. Within the series we also explore how this knowledge might be used to facilitate self-management and delay the ageing processes...

...care, will help you to understand the ways computers and technology work with health data to produce information, and how exactly this impacts patient care...Have you ever wondered about how information and technology have impacted healthcare? What influence does all this have on how a day-to-day clinical role is carried out? This free course, An introduction to data and...

...care means taking steps to improve your wellbeing. This might include a better diet, more sleep, a new hobby, time with family and friends, finding ways to relax and more physical exercise. We've got some great ideas to help you get started! ...Explore these articles and courses to help give you inspiration. Change doesn't have to be overwhelming. Just add one change in...

...care matters because it conveys the values we attribute to life and death says lecturer at The Open University, Dr Erica Borgstrom...[Grandma's hands] A male born in 2014 to 2016 has a 21% chance, and a female a 32% chance, of surviving to at least age 90 “She’s poorly” – that’s a phrase I hear a lot in my research about palliative and end of life care. But what...

...care sector recently underwent a serious reality check. A chronically underfunded system is “turning good people into bad carers”, claimed Andrea Sutcliffe, the Care Quality Commission’s social care chief, following news that 150 complaints about elderly care are raised every day. In the same week the government announced it would delay the introduction of...

...care? is a free course which introduces and explains how literature reviews can support evidence-based practice in health and social care. A literature review can offer a systematic way in which to sift through information to produce relevant existing knowledge and discern knowledge gaps. This short course explores different examples of the use of literature reviews that...