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Hear to help? Addressing the unmet need of hearing loss in care homes

Rebecca MillmanHannah Cross By and Filed Under: All posts, Health and Care, Health and Social Care Posted:

More than 75% of the 300,000 older adults living in UK care homes struggle to hear the world around them properly. Hearing loss is one of the most common conditions in later life, yet it remains routinely unidentified, unsupported and overlooked for care home residents. Here, Dr Hannah Cross and Dr Rebecca Millman outline the […]

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Breaking barriers: supporting people with Long COVID to return to work

Dr Ruth Wiggans By , and Filed Under: All posts, Growth and Inclusion, Health and Care, Work Posted:

Supporting people with long-term disabilities to enter, or re-enter, the labour market is a key priority for policymakers. Here, Dr Hua Wei, Dr Sarah Daniels, and Dr Ruth Wiggans outline new research into what works – and doesn’t work – for those with Long COVID returning to work, how this can inform wider reforms to […]

Out of mind? What policymakers should learn from those who shielded from COVID-19

Charlotte Sharp headshot photo By and Filed Under: All posts, Health and Care, Health and Social Care Posted:

Between the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and September 2021, 4.1 million people in the UK were asked to ‘shield’, including those with autoimmune conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis. Shielding recommendations included staying at home, avoiding all face-to-face contact with those outside shielders’ households, and limiting interactions within households. Here, Dr Charlotte Sharp and Lynn […]

“I don’t do anything”: It’s time to place more emphasis on strength training in later life

By Filed Under: Health and Care, Health and Social Care Posted:

Since 2011, the UK Chief Medical Officers’ (CMOs) guidelines on physical activity have included strength recommendations. However, there is limited evidence that these recommendations are getting through to those who need them. In this blog, Dr Ashley Gluchowski outlines how older adults are engaging with the guidelines, and whether more can be done by public […]

Middle-aged woman in a wheel chair and eats a meal alone.

Institutional abuse and neglect: time for policy and regulatory reform?

Phot of Kirsty KeywoodPicture of Margaret Flynn By and Filed Under: All posts, Health and Care Posted:

Attention to the abuse and neglect of people in institutional settings is at the forefront of existing and proposed policy agendas. Investigations, reviews and calls for action feature in the workload of the Joint Committee on Human Rights; the Health and Social Care Select Committee; the Equality and Human Rights Committee and the Care Quality […]

Inequalities in ageing: health disadvantages amongst ethnic minority groups

By and Filed Under: All posts, Ethnicity, Health and Care, Health and Social Care Posted:

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a disproportionate impact on most ethnic minority groups in England. But this inequality is a crisis within a crisis – the pandemic has laid bare and exacerbated existing deep-rooted health inequalities. Here, Dr Ruth Watkinson and Dr Alex Turner, from the Health Organisation, Policy and Economics group (HOPE) and the […]

Citizen’s data, healthcare and trust

By and Filed Under: Digital Futures, Health and Care, Health and Social Care Posted:

Health data has informed a central part our NHS for more than two decades, helping the informative bodies to improve services and understand health trends. This has also proved key in understanding, and attempting to mitigate, the worst impacts of COVID-19. However, when this data is shared with secondary bodies, does the public trust that […]

Gender and sexual violence

David Gadd By , and Filed Under: All posts, Health and Social Care Posted:

Sexual violence can have devastating consequences for victims. In this blog, Dr Catherine White, Dr Rabiya Majeed-Ariss and Professor David Gadd explore how gender intersects with social demographic characteristics to compound vulnerabilities and complicate access to services. Most adult victims of sexual violence are females, and perpetrators of sexual violence are predominantly male. In 2017, […]

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