Social Workers Speak

JANUARY 26, 2022

South Carolina social worker Macie Smith has devoted her career to helping people older adults and people living with dementia, Alzheimer’s, and developmental disabilities – and their families — live life to the fullest and get the best possible care. Macie Smith offers advice on aging on Saltbox TV.

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MQ Mental Health

APRIL 15, 2024

Art therapy has been gradually and successfully used to reduce suffering from disorders such as depression, anxiety, cognitive impairment and dementias, Alzheimer's disease, and schizophrenia. Art therapy, music therapy, and many creative therapies have been found to have a benefit to inpatient care.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

I now have a good understanding around the role of the social worker, and how they can affect the lives of individuals positively in the society. As a care assistant, I have gained experience working and supporting adults with dementia and have experienced its adverse effects on individuals, especially their families.

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Social Work With Adults

OCTOBER 6, 2022

As society reopens, with the exception of clinical and care settings, there are no restrictions on movement in public or private spaces. There are wider systemic challenges too, as services strive to keep going for those in need. These increasing pressures are perhaps not surprising.

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Social Work With Adults

JUNE 14, 2023

Es is developing dementia and has always found it too shameful to be open about her relationship, including with her only son. Es and Flo: a poignant love story, including an accurate portrayal of inclusive social work practice in the context of dementia and the LGBTQ+ community.

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MQ Mental Health

MARCH 13, 2022

This meeting will be focusing on a pressing issue of today's society: Suicidality. The next #MQDataScience meeting is on Wednesday the 23rd of March and for the first time we are collaborating with DATAMIND , the HDR UK’s new hub that enables researchers to use and find the UK’s rich datasets. Book your free ticket now.

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Save the Social Worker

JANUARY 10, 2024

You face a variety of client needs, ranging from: Family needs often cut across many different types Domestic violence Financial assistance Housing, especially homelessness, or rental flat applications Elderly issues like neglect, care needs like dementia Child issues like child protection, absenteeism from school There’s often no one need.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

JANUARY 10, 2022

She currently serves as the President of Psychologists in Long-Term Care and also serves on AMDA’s Society for Post-Acute Care and Long-Term Care (PALTC)’s Behavioral Health Council. first appeared on Society of Clinical Psychology. Follow her on Twitter @CeciliaPoonPhD. References Cited. American Psychological Association.

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MQ Mental Health

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

I then managed a programme of work exploring behavioural, social, and psychological support strategies to help people living with dementia live independently at home before moving to the Social Biobehavioural Research Group as a Senior Research Fellow in April 2020 at the start of the pandemic.

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MQ Mental Health

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

As the guidelines state; 75% of mental illnesses start before the age of 18 and 50% of mental health problems in adult life (excluding dementia) take root before the age of 15. Early years are formulative, and can set the course for mental health in later life. What does the guidance say?

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MQ Mental Health

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

As the guidelines state; 75% of mental illnesses start before the age of 18 and 50% of mental health problems in adult life (excluding dementia) take root before the age of 15. Early years are formulative, and can set the course for mental health in later life. What does the guidance say?

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MQ Mental Health

MARCH 25, 2022

The symposiums highlighted some of the best work in the field, focused on a pressing issue of today’s society: Suicidality. This year we are collaborating with HDR UK's new hub - DATAMIND - who is working to enable researchers and stakeholders to find and use UK's rich datasets and health records for mental health research.

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MQ Mental Health

JANUARY 14, 2022

Up until recently, I had been really concerned I was developing early dementia, now I understand it is brain fog.”. It is, however, sadly clear that the long-term health effects will be profound - and be felt in societies across the globe. He wasn’t wrong but it was hard to hear from someone else. What will this study do?

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University of Connecticut

MAY 8, 2023

I will be graduating next year and with my degree, I plan to work towards improving health outcomes for older adults, especially individuals experiencing Alzheimer’s and Dementia. However it means more than just money, and it has given me the confidence that I need to strive to make an impact on society in my future endeavors.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

JANUARY 30, 2024

For instance, research into “anticipatory dementia” describes significant distress among some older adults that normal memory problems associated with aging are an indication of dementia (Cutler & Hodgson, 1996; French et al., The Changing Model of Alzheimer’s Disease Care The first goal of the U.S. Stites et al., 95%CI, 1.9

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The Guardian

APRIL 23, 2024

Johnny Timpson says he wants to ‘take a stand’ after revelations thousands of unpaid carers are being forced to pay huge fines One of Rishi Sunak’s dementia advisers has resigned over the government’s approach towards unpaid carers, describing the prosecutions of vulnerable people as “beyond the pale”.

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The Guardian

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

At Belong Chester, the older residents and young children have the chance to spend each day together, and it’s led to big improvements in all their lives. What’s the secret? It is lunchtime in the bistro at Belong and half a dozen toddlers are tucking into sausage cassoulet, mash and seasonal vegetables.

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The Guardian

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

When I started doing sensory stimulation workshops, I worried that playing music for the group would fall flat. I couldn’t have been more wrong In 2013 I was in my last year studying theatre and performance at the University of Leeds. I was a fairly normal student, I think.

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The Guardian

MARCH 10, 2024

University of Oxford study shows benefits and risks of technology to healthcare, but ethical issues remain Britain’s hard-pressed carers need all the help they can get. But that should not include using unregulated AI bots, according to researchers who say the AI revolution in social care needs a hard ethical edge.

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The Guardian

JANUARY 17, 2023

Exclusive: ‘Eye-watering’ pay for Gordon Sanders comes despite inspectors finding multiple breaches of rules at his firm’s homes A multimillionaire dementia home boss paid himself at least £21m in five years despite inspectors finding multiple breaches of staffing, safety and leadership rules, with residents left in dirty incontinence pads and staff (..)

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The Guardian

JANUARY 7, 2024

Amid the grief and pain, there were moments of explosive laughter – and unexpected pride After a stroke, at 81, my clever, funny, obstinate father developed vascular dementia in November 2011. Changes to mood are inevitable, because they feel disoriented, confused and vulnerable.

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The Guardian

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

In a profoundly intimate film, director Maite Alberdi follows an influential Chilean journalist and his partner as they navigate life after an Alzheimer’s diagnosis At the start of the Chilean documentary The Eternal Memory, a woman asks her husband, who has Alzheimer’s, if he likes his life. He beams back at her. “I I love life.”

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The Guardian

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Music can reduce agitation and medication and two initiatives are trying to give everyone the chance to benefit from its power Catherine has lived with dementia for five years. Mark, diagnosed with dementia last year, was becoming isolated and depressed. Until, that is, his care home started a choir.

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The Guardian

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Exclusive: Nearly one in 10 care homes that offer dementia support reported on by inspectors in 2022 were given worst rating ‘Very grim’: daughter criticises Surrey care home over father’s death Families of people with dementia have said there is a national crisis in care safety as it emerged that more than half of residential homes reported on by (..)

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The Guardian

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Woodside is modelled on a Dutch facility that connects residents to normal life and improves wellbeing It is the dementia care complex with the air of The Truman Show. But none of the places are quite what they seem, because here everything has a greater purpose: to improve the wellbeing of people with dementia. Continue reading.

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The Guardian

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Animatronic cats and dogs have helped staff at a Bedfordshire care home to avoid medicating some residents with dementia “You’re bloody lovely ain’t you,” said Frances Barrett, as the robotic cat she was stroking flicked its ears and whiskers one lunchtime this week at the Oak Manor care home in Bedfordshire.

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The Guardian

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Support groups say relatives are frightened to speak out about being denied access to elderly residents Two and a half years after Boris Johnson announced the first UK lockdown, and seven months after the last domestic measures ended, some care homes in Britain are still denying people access to their elderly relatives due to Covid restrictions.

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The Guardian

JULY 30, 2023

Exclusive: Many exhausted relatives asking for help as health and social care services stretched beyond limit Soaring numbers of families struggling to care for someone with dementia have hit a “crisis point” with nowhere to turn for help when their loved one puts themselves or others at risk of harm, a charity has said. Continue reading.

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The Guardian

MAY 29, 2023

Two decades on, she shares the insights that helped her help him Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email In 2007, I was suddenly plunged into the role of caregiver for my then 75-year-old father, who had vascular dementia. His short-term memory was severely impaired, as were his judgment and reasoning skills.

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The Guardian

JANUARY 11, 2024

Fanny Johnstone’s moving account of caring for her father resonates with readers I found Fanny Johnstone’s article interesting in that it highlighted the hope, as opposed to the so-often associated despair, in caring for someone with dementia ( ‘I wouldn’t have missed it for the world’: 10 things I learned when my father had dementia, 8 January ).

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The Guardian

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

Relatives and support groups claim that the sector has been ‘left behind’ as the rest of society opens up Dozens of care homes are still denying people access to their elderly relatives 20 months after the pandemic began, according to support groups.

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The Guardian

OCTOBER 23, 2023

People at a dementia cafe session in Swindon describe long waits for diagnosis, and knock-on delays in prescribing treatment Inequality leaving 115,000 dementia cases ‘undiagnosed’ in England Swindon has one of the worst dementia diagnosis rates in England.

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The Guardian

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

UK medical records over 21 years show both groups survived less time after diagnosis than white counterparts Britons of black and south Asian origin with dementia die younger and sooner after being diagnosed than white people, research has found. South Asian people die 2.97 years younger and black people 2.66

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The Guardian

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Many families are too scared to complain Helen Wildbore is the director of the Relatives & Residents Association Dementia patients in England facing ‘national crisis’ in care safety The crisis in dementia care reported by the Guardian this week is deeply upsetting.

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The Guardian

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Home where Robert spent his last months was one of hundreds in England whose ratings fell after inspection this year Dementia patients in England facing ‘national crisis’ in care safety Robert Dunn* had been living with dementia at home for seven years when, after one fall too many, his son and daughter took the decision to move him.

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The Guardian

MAY 12, 2023

As we are becoming ever more aware, dementia is a neglected area of health research and management, and social care, too: the consequences, as illustrated by the saddening case studies provided, are tragic. After being diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia at 59, my brother died a pitiful and excruciating death five years later.

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The Guardian

JUNE 13, 2023

My 62-year-old husband, who has early-onset dementia, was diagnosed when he was 58. Because my husband has dementia, the care he needs is deemed to be social, not medical, and so I am looking at crippling care fees, with him in a home or with a patchwork of carers at our home.

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