Community Care

MARCH 12, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Older people are routinely having their human rights breached because of a failure to tackle the “huge” Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) backlog and a system in “complete disarray” That was the verdict from an Age UK report that warned many people were being unlawfully deprived of their liberty because of the government’s failure to reform DoLS, signifi

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The Guardian

MARCH 12, 2024

Grosvenor says it is prevented from making 3,000 visits a week as it pays migrant workers to sit at home because permits not renewed One of the UK’s biggest home care providers says it is paying dozens of migrant workers to sit at home and do nothing because the Home Office has not renewed key immigration permits. Thousands of workers, mostly from Africa, were welcomed into the UK to help fill the one in 10 care worker jobs vacant after the Covid crisis.

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Jaeran Kim

MARCH 12, 2024

Faculty Fellows in Community Engagement – University of Washington Tacoma Office of Community Partnerships Summary of Project: SAMM is a series of activities aimed at supporting and growing peer mentorship communities for youth and adults with lived adoption histories. When adoptees begin to develop an adoptee identity and reflect on how adoption has impacted them, a sense of confusion and dissonance can occur.

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The Guardian

MARCH 12, 2024

Multiple cases of abuse and exploitation have been documented, but many staff feel ‘powerless to complain’ for fear of losing the right to work in the country A foreign care worker says she was repeatedly raped by her manager but felt unable to report him to the police for fear of losing her right to work, in a case that exposes the way the UK’s visa system for health and care workers leaves people completely dependent on their employer.

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Prosper Health Collective

MARCH 12, 2024

How Depression impacts Social Connection Depression often leads to social isolation as people who are feeling depressed tend to withdraw from interacting with others. This withdrawal can exacerbate feelings of loneliness and further contribute to depressive symptoms, causing a vicious cycle. Reasons for Social Isolation Feelings of worthlessness Feelings of hopelessness that social interaction will not improve the situation Lack of energy and motivation Feelings of burdensome Fear of rejec

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Michigan Social Work

MARCH 12, 2024

MSW students Claudia Abboud and Cora Galpern spoke with PBS’s NewsHour about the option to vote “uncommitted” in last week’s state primary election. “I don’t think we have a whole lot of ways to really make sure that our voices are being heard,” Abboud said. “But this is one direct way that we can, that we have some power we can leverage, that we can do something and communicate what our wants and our needs are directly to the source.

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Michigan Social Work

MARCH 12, 2024

Six School of Social Work Professors have been selected to serve as cluster co-chairs for the Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR) Annual Conference. Cluster chairs play a significant role in the abstract review and development of the abstract-based program content for the SSWR annual conference.

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The Guardian

MARCH 12, 2024

An expert panel has recommended people with a lot of super contribute more to aged care – but the government may not respond any time soon The long-awaited report of the government-appointed aged care taskforce has recommended wealthier Australians be expected to tap into their superannuation balances to pay for more , in a bid to keep the system sustainably funded.

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CAPC

MARCH 12, 2024

Learnings from an ASCO survey of over 450 oncology professionals about working with underserved populations.

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University of Connecticut

MARCH 12, 2024

Mathematica and Innovations Institute have partnered to advance policymakers’ understanding of how Medicaid and child welfare agencies ensure youth in the child welfare system receive access to health care. The Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission ( MACPAC ) has awarded a 10-month contract to Mathematica , who has partnered with Innovations, to help the commission better understand the role and responsibilities of state Medicaid and child welfare agencies in meeting the health care ne

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CAPC

MARCH 12, 2024

A Palliative Care News article advocates for incorporating palliative care social workers in the ED.

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CAPC

MARCH 12, 2024

CAPC CEO Brynn Bowman quoted in article about palliative care program sustainability.

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