Meeting the human need for mutually supportive relationships demands a different approach to the way society provides social care.

For #GladtoCare week, Jenny Kartupelis shares learning from a study that explores the benefits of relational care. ow.ly/ZwIz50RMZTM

We've just published a Uni of Birmingham 1-page policy briefing on how to develop the #socialwork workforce we need to enable a good later life for everyone who'll draw on #socialcare Adult PSW Network ADASS Skills for Care

The Sibling Group Tudor Street Day Centre @incglos @CrippingBreath Medications and My Mental Health @dissexlab @centreforcare Becky Gillespie @SWOPresearch Giselle - Adult Social Care Warriors Your Voice @sheffieldvoices Dr Lauran Doak @rightfullives Darren Chadwick iHuman David Abbott Sana Rizvi LDEngland

We've just published a Uni of Birmingham 1-page policy briefing on how social workers time can be freed up so they spend more time promoting older people's wellbeing and less time dealing with day-to-day system hassles #socialwork tinyurl.com/yvcanrdz Adult PSW Network ADASS

there's a perfect reflection in here from Tricia Nicoll of what we found in our research - older people, carers, families want 'gloriously ordinary lives' & social workers can enable them but lack of ££ & time hold them back #socialwork tinyurl.com/58nzkt5w

Please share widely 📢

Sign up for our next (free!) Community of Practice event, 19 June 2pm. In this Pride month special, we'll have LGBTQ+ elders talking about queer joy and how care providers can support its expression 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️Sign up here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/circle-commu…

So how can social workers and care providers ensure that older people can live their best lives- and experience inclusive care? Adult PSW Network Hannah Scaife (she/her) Dr Jolie Keemink (she/her) Let’s do it together ⬇️

My colleague Robert Colvile correctly making the case for fixing social care to help fix the NHS.

I would add, that regardless of NHS impact, providing good social care to the elderly and working age people who need it, is itself important for our society: thetimes.co.uk/article/f84c32…

Exactly, social care of itself is a priority for support, to improve our lives, to help carers to work, to combat discrimination, isolation. Health is an important part of life, it is not our whole lives. We need culture, achievement, development etc. cue Mighty Wah song etc

Imagine a world where the rights of #OlderPeople are enshrined & protected by a United Nations convention. It’s time to ensure respect, dignity and inclusion of older people everywhere.

#StopTalkingStartDrafting #AgeWithRights #OEWG14 António Guterres

#SocialWorkPractice
#OpenAccess
#FreeToRead
Human Rights and the Care of Older People.
Congratulations Dr Maeve O'Rourke

Our 'Diversifying Ageing: Fresh Perspectives' collection in our free age-positive image library has almost 700 photos of older people from underrepresented backgrounds.

The photos can be downloaded instantly, browse the collection here: agewithoutlimits.org/image-library/…

As part of #DementiaActionWeek , Kath Sykes, NIHR ARC Kent, Surrey and Sussex Living Well with Dementia Implementation Lead, shares some top tips for engagement and co-design with people living with dementia 🫶

More here 👉 tinyurl.com/448s79hd

Talking Sense online course is now LIVE! - ⁦Living with sensory changes and dementia
Agnes Houston MBE⁩ ⁦Joanna Fozard⁩ ⁦HammondCare⁩
Please share this invaluable resource far and wide dementiavoices.org.uk/talking-sense-…

Must read new #OpenAccess book 'Human Rights + Care of Older People Dr Maeve O'Rourke Massive congratulations Maeve- your endless pursuit for social justice and human rights for #olderpeople is inspiring! Really looking forward to reading it and using it for my teaching 👏👏👏

EAPC Day 2. All set up with my poster on the experiences of #FamilyCarers supporting older people in #rural areas towards the end-of-life. #EAPC2024 Prof Mari Lloyd-Williams Nathan Davies Dr Karen Harrison Dening

Also find articles from our partners: BASW, ADASS, Skills for Care, SCIE, Carers UK, Dr C Farquharson CBE and karolina💚, Consortium members such as Age UK, National Care Forum, Homecare Association and Dame Phillipa Russell; and assembly member @RachelKelso2

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'Indeed, it is hard to think of an Act whose principles seems so promising on paper, but which simply has not been implemented in practice.'

A decade since the Care Act received Royal Assent, Jon Glasby and Dr Laura Griffith write for Local Government Association (LGA): local.gov.uk/prof-jon-glasb…

Free webinar on 'Human Rights in the Context of Care for People Living with Dementia' on 5th June, 9AM GMT UCDSocialPolWorkJust
Delighted to have inputs Kate Swaffer she/her 🌏🌼🧩🤐 Irish Dementia Working Group Linda Steele Dr Maeve O'Rourke +Kristina Chelbourg, PhD student
Register: ucd-ie.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

'Ultimately to finally solve the problem there needs to be a more sustainable position for social care' - a *health source*