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Health, Sports & Psychology
Type 2 diabetes across the globe: What's going on?
Journey across the world and uncover why there is a global epidemic of type 2 diabetes and bust some of the myths around it.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Walk the walk: encountering death and dying spaces in hospital
For some staff in hospitals, dealing with serious injury and death may be a common occurrence. But it is often unchartered territory for family and friends when called in to visit someone they know. It can be a time of heightened emotions and confusion.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Stay connected: supporting people with learning disabilities to use technology
What is the best way to support people with learning disabilities to access and use technology? This series of seven videos will help you answer this question.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
So, you want to be a nurse? A brief introduction to nursing
This free course, So you want to be a nurse? A brief introduction to nursing, provides an overview of what nursing entails. Focusing on nursing in the UK specifically, but also looking at its place globally, you will learn about the four fields of nursing in the UK, what nurse training involves, as well as what makes a great nurse. This ...
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Health, Sports & Psychology
The Quilt of Excellence: how to support older people with learning disabilities and their families
Explore what good care looks like in this short animation.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Supporting older people with learning disabilities and their families
This free course, Supporting older people with learning disabilities and their families, stems from research that explored how to improve the care and support for older people with learning disabilities and behaviours that challenge others, and their families.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Ageing, health inequalities and an integrated approach
What can we do to help people age well in a fairer society?
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Ageing, health inequalities and person-centred care
How can healthcare professionals ensure that people are treated fairly, irrespective of their age, background, financial circumstances or where they live? This article looks further into inequalities in health.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Caring for an older family member with learning disabilities
Whether you are a parent or sibling caring for a relative with a learning disability, this free course, Caring for an older family member with learning disabilities, is designed to help you navigate the system as they grow older. It has been developed from a cutting-edge research project that explored how to improve the care and support for ...
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care: making sense of a national framework for local action
The Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care seeks to help transform end of life care across the country. A research team from The Open University set out to explore how people make sense of and use this document in their practice.
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Introducing multidisciplinary study at The Open University
This free course, Introducing multidisciplinary study at The Open University, provides an overview of the materials and resources there are to support you if you’re studying or thinking about studying an Open qualification (Degree, and/or Masters) with The Open University. It provides useful background information to the qualifications and helps...
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Walking the walk: improving death and dying spaces
Have you ever considered how the location and spaces in end-of-life care impact on a carer’s experience? Let's look at how attention to detail can make a huge difference.