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How can Adult Carers get the best support during Covid-19 pandemic and beyond?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can Adult Carers get the best support during Covid-19 pandemic and beyond?

...Care Excellence (NICE) (2020) ‘Supporting Adult Carers’ guideline. (Available at: https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng150) Vseteckova J et al (2020) The effects of self-isolation and lack of physical activity on carers https://www.open.edu/openlearn/health-sports-psychology/social-care-social-work/the-effects-self-isolation-and-lack-physical-activity-on-carers This...
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CARE-KNOW-DO for Social and Emotional Learning: building children’s resilience and agency in crisis settings
Education & Development

CARE-KNOW-DO for Social and Emotional Learning: building children’s resilience and agency in crisis settings

...CARE-KNOW-DO framework offers a clear, practical way for educators and organisations to nurture Social and Emotional Learning (SEL), combining emotional safety, play-based learning, and step-by-step empowerment. This approach not only helps children recover academically but also builds the resilience and self-belief they need to thrive in the face of adversity...Nearly a...
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The evolution of sports medicine over the last 50 Years: From the wet sponge to holistic care
Health, Sports & Psychology

The evolution of sports medicine over the last 50 Years: From the wet sponge to holistic care

...care received by injured athletes. The increased professionalisation of sport and lottery funding in the UK has led to more opportunities for people to work in the field, advancements in treatment modalities and greater understanding of sports injuries from a biopsychosocial perspective. What will the next fifty years bring? References Alonso, Y. (2004). The...
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Social mobility isn’t just about 18-year-olds: adults need life chances too
Society, Politics & Law

Social mobility isn’t just about 18-year-olds: adults need life chances too

...adults who missed out at 18 and aspire for a second chance while working and learners with low or alternative entry qualifications, to poorer learners in low-status jobs – often women who are seeking a transformative life chance to benefit their families. Their needs cannot be met by the inflexibilities inherent in mainstream full-time higher education. If universities...
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Let’s not talk about dying: Five reasons why people avoid planning for their end-of-life care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Let’s not talk about dying: Five reasons why people avoid planning for their end-of-life care

...care plans or may avoid planning for end-of-life care. Dr Erica Borgstrom tells us why...“Advance care plans….what is that?” Do you know what that is? Don’t worry if not – a lot of the people I’ve spoken to during my research about their health and future care didn’t know what they were either. Advance care planning (or anticipatory care planning as......
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Carers, COVID-19 and Physical Activity: The Research
Health, Sports & Psychology

Carers, COVID-19 and Physical Activity: The Research

...caring duties. The COVID-19 outbreak and the following period of self-isolation made it much harder for carers to get any respite. This is particularly true in relation to carers who are struggling to manage increasingly challenging behaviours of those for whom they care (often including complex mental health needs) and who have less access to normal coping mechanisms...
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Older carers, COVID-19 and physical activity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Older carers, COVID-19 and physical activity

...adults aged 65 years and over provide unpaid care - how much has this increased since the corona virus outbreak? This article explores...“Each day elderly care givers are faced with numerous challenges; it is likely that the period of coronavirus lockdown will have impacted upon these further.” This article focusses on older carers within a wider research study...
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For older people, the storms might abate but the harm persists
Health, Sports & Psychology

For older people, the storms might abate but the harm persists

...care – feeding people, giving medications, turning them every two hours and cleaning them up. One older man had severe cerebral palsy but was fully alert. He had been lying in a dirty diaper for hours, on a pallet on the floor in a crowded, loud, bright room. I knelt down to tell him I’d be right back to clean him up, but he told me that others needed help more than...
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