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Pettifogging?
Judge invites Office of the Public Guardian to reconsider application to revoke LPA “If I were the one in a care home, I would certainly want my partner to use as much of ‘my’ money as legally allowable for him to live comfortably and to keep us in regular contact.” Reflections “I found this hearing…
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More Older Adults Are Moving in With Their Children
One In Five Boomers Have Children Living At Home, Higher In Toronto and Vancouver, but there is a spike in the opposite trend One of the most interesting things about North America’s societal evolution is the change in family dynamics. For many years, people would have children, and these kids would stay in the family…
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On independent living, the focus of policy should be the destination, not the departure point
Originally posted on Making rights make sense: Having recently completed some research on independent living, I’ve been reflecting on the framing of policy and the way progress is measured, and how this explains commonplace shortcomings in action and implementation. The problem with ‘deinstitutionalisation’ as a goal is that it elevates a departure point over a…
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Work & Care
Originally posted on BeHome Blog: Whenever we organise an event, such as last week’s round table in Madrid, giving visibility to the work that Home Renaissance Foundation has been doing since 2006, we receive messages for days afterwards. They are messages of thanks for making relevant a subject as basic and at the same time…
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How can “us” and “them” become “we”?
Originally posted on BeHome Blog: By Susan Peatfield ‘The title of this post was a defining question of HRF’s Expert Meeting on The Home and Displaced People, held in Washington DC. The “othering” of the displaced has long been recognized as a barrier to successful integration – to feeling at home in a new place…
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Measuring the influence of occupational therapy led activity on the quality of life of care home residents with dementia.
Motivation: “My interest in my MSc dissertation topic came from my time working with patients in the dementia ward at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital. Occupational Therapy (OT) had a key role in preserving an individual’s personhood through grading and adapting meaningful activities as well as maintaining skills. My concern was their transition to care homes…
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Evaluation of the ten-week Caring Changes training course for residential care practitioners
Ed Janes, Eleanor Staples, Alyson Rees Abstract Residential care is often seen as a last resort for adolescents in the care system with multiple placements and complex case histories. This has led to an increasing research focus on the needs of children in residential care and how settings and practitioners can provide suitable environments. This…
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Live-in care at home options
Find out how live-in care works, how much it costs, and if it could suit you. Which? Editorial team The items covers what, who, how and where as well as looking at the pros and cons… Which? source: https://www.which.co.uk/reviews/later-life-care/article/home-care-guides/live-in-care-options-akjca9U16ROT
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Alternative Living Styles
Exploring Sustainable and Innovative Ways of Living As the world faces various environmental and societal challenges, more people are looking for alternative living styles that offer a sustainable and innovative way of life. Alternative living styles refer to any lifestyle that differs from the mainstream way of living and typically involves reducing one’s environmental impact…
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New home for man who lives in bathroom
By Celia Kitzinger, 23 May 2023 In July 2022, the man at the centre of this case (“Brian”) “retreated” to the communal bathroom of the care home where he’s lived since 1993, and has, in effect, been there ever since. “I was dismayed by how long Brian had been left in the bathroom and horrified…
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Why is a children’s home like a bee?
11th May 2023, Jonathan Stanley Because there are many types for many circumstances. ‘A bee’ is a vague way of describing the 270 different bees named in the Field Guide of Bees of Great Britain and Ireland. Thinking about children’s homes as one category is like thinking bees are all one thing. Read this and…
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The Multi-Generational Home
It has been said recently, that this latest generation of new adults has it worse-off financially than several of the generations before them.* Those of us who have retired benefitted from the growth and comfort of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Today’s new adults are struggling to afford the basics in life: shelter,…
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Home & Work
Originally posted on BeHome Blog: On Tuesday we had the opportunity to return to the Espacio Fundación Telefónica in Madrid to present the results of the research we have carried out with the International Centre for Work and Family (ICWF) at Iese Business School on the impact of housework on our personal, family and professional…
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Trying to Stay Sane while Caring for Multiple Generations
Tips for balancing caregiving relationships between generations “Caregiving can creep into your life or crash down with a bang, but either way, if we aren’t thinking ahead, we can find that our other relationships suffer. Oh man, I’ve been there.” This is how it often happens: visit the website and the read the blogs in full at……
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Notice to Quit
Green and Manthorpe, 2023, Notice to Quit report “This study investigated some of the circumstances under which ‘notices to quit’ were issued to care home residents or their representatives and the impact such a notice can have on residents and their families. The research included interviews with relatives of care home residents who had received…
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Needs
Rewriting social care: Words that make me go hmmm “The language of ‘need’ defines people as recipients, dependent on others for care and support, needing to be ‘looked after’ and ‘taken care of’. ‘The cared for’. ‘The vulnerable’. It ignores the agency people have (and should have) and the contributions people make (and should be…
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The Gift of Empathy
Photo: Manufactured Housing Village. Willow Pines mobile home park in Kaysville, Utah. An empathetic woman makes the manufactured housing parks she manages truly homes. At a manufactured housing park in Utah, as Cathy Free reports at the Washington Post, one woman is making a huge difference in residents’ sense of security. “Pat Blake, who manages…
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