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Spotlight – The Care of Older People Practice Manual

A key text for challenging ageism and promoting dignified practice. Dr Sue Thompson presents invaluable guidance on how to take care of older people in positive empowering ways that avoid common ageist assumptions and practices. This is an essential guide…

Neil Thompson’s Lesson for Living – Put yourself in their shoes

Many a problem has been caused by someone putting something in writing in a way that led to misunderstanding. What you intended to convey and what is interpreted by the reader can sometimes be very different indeed. For example, what…

Supporting people with everyday technology

Social care staff need to be ready to help people they support and their families to make choices about using technology to stay connected and contribute to their communities, especially while social distancing restrictions are in place. Using technology is…

Invisible disabilities

There are 14 million disabled people in the UK. That’s 1 in 5 of us. Many impairments and conditions are not immediately obvious. That’s why we are supporting ITV to raise awareness of the negative attitudes and social isolation people…

Homelessness data

This presents available data and empirical evidence on homelessness, focusing specifically on how it affects people in high-income countries. Homeless people are among the most vulnerable groups in high-income countries. You can read our entry on Extreme Poverty if you…

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