“Care workers received their lowest average percentage pay rise in six years, & experienced care workers earn barely more than new care workers; this is unsustainable. Urgent action is needed" @vicrayner.bsky.social responds to @skillsforcare.bsky.social's pay in #ASC report bit.ly/4se6fRu
Our next Gerontology & Tonic: Care homes and Carers with Dr Fawn Harrad-Hyde
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Sharing this paper again. Getting some good attention and hopefully will facilitate change in patient flow pathways for people with dementia in hospital. All credit to lead author @emmaelliott.bsky.social @arc-gm.bsky.social
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Are you an NIHR Predoctoral Award holder with a background in social care? Or have you supervised an award holder who does?
If so please can you get in touch? I have a potential applicant with a domicillary care / support work background who is looking for potential supervisors.
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🚨🚨🚨The CfP for the 2025 BSA #Death, #Dying and #Bereavement symposium is now open! This year's theme is #Care and #Caring, and the University of Nottingham is hosting us. Please submit your abstracts by Tuesday 30th September to bsaddb@gmail.com. We're looking forward to reading them!
Flyer for workshop titled Building Inclusive Practices around Mental Capacity and Consent in Palliative Care Research at RCP in London on 17th Oct
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Introducing Alissia Rae Harrad-Hyde, born Wed 2nd July 2025, weighing 6lb 4oz.
Thank you to my wife for carrying our beautiful daughter 💕
We were able to come home 24 hours after Alissia’s arrival and we are enjoying settling into this long awaited new chapter of our lives.
I’m excited to share a podcast I took part in for THIS institute, we discuss why it’s so hard to do less in healthcare.You can find it on Spotify, Apple Poscast or Amazon music. Just search ‘listen to THIS’ I’m episode 6. Or here’s the link to the website www.thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk/podcast/why-...
⭐️ Beatrice Godwin Memorial Lecture
Free talk for #dyingmattersweek on the need for radical dementia research, with James Fletcher and chaired by Diana Teggi
8th May 6-7pm BST Online
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Lovely to return to ENRICH Care Home Research Advisory Group at @nihr.bsky.social RDN West Midlands this morning. Thanks for the opportunity to talk to a fantastic group of care home managers and to seek crucial feedback on a new study that we are planning!
HAPPENING TOMORROW! 📣
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Thankyou :) please do get in touch if you have any feedback.
Thanks for sharing!
Thankyou for reading and for your feedback. Yes absolutely, ideally to bridge some of the gaps (eg staff wanting to keep people on site but not able to get appropriate support / meds etc) and improve a sense that staff across different services all have a shared goal of supporting the person.
Thankyou for your kind feedback and for reposting! I am glad you found it interesting!
Care home residents have complex needs & staff supporting them make complex decisions. Rather than focussing on keeping residents out of hospital we need to design health services that better support them. If we don’t they will continue to be seen as ‘out of place’ in all settings they receive care.
Staff worried that in a busy hospital environment residents might require lots of support, receive poor care and ‘get worse’.
But they also feared that residents might not get the tests / treatments they needed in the care home and were worried about being accused of ‘not doing enough’.
We found that whether providing care in the home or transferring residents to hospital, staff saw residents as both potentially vulnerable (at risk themselves) and as potentially dangerous (posing a risk to others).
In this study we interviewed 30 staff across 6 homes. In 3 homes, we also observed staff, talked to them and looked at documents they used during deteriorations.
New paper in which we argue that at times of deterioration care home residents are seen as ‘out of place’ in both care home and hospital settings.
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Fantastic news - very well deserved, important topic and you’re absolutely the person to be leading it. Congratulations!
Is it possible to donate unused, sealed needles anywhere?
I have ~45 of these 600 IUI/ml syringes with fixed needles from a round of IVF and it seems wasteful to throw them away (especially given that we paid for our meds!)
Applogies if the description is incorrect - best guess based on packaging
Do you know is this work has been published? I am about to have a search but would love to read more. We have a PhD student at Uni of Leicester Jenny O’Donnell (not on this platform) who is currently looking at the acceptability of talking therapies for care home staff.
