Estimating the prevalence of advanced dementia among people living in care homes in Scotland: a national survey
Glasgow Caledonian University are conducting a study looking at the provision of Podiatry care for people with advanced stage dementia across Scotland and need your help.
Free Personal and Nursing Care Payments; Personal Expenses Allowance (PEA); Capital Limits; and Savings Disregards
Important information about a Service Needs Assessment to determine the training required to fill an additional 500 Advanced Nurse Practitioner posts by 2021.
NHS Education for Scotland, in collaboration with the Transforming Nursing Roles (TNR) Advanced Practice group, is hosting 3 regional events that will: Inform delegates of the national approach to advanced practice and the Scottish Government’s commitment that 500 additional ANPs will be trained by 2021. Provide guidance on the Service/education
NHS Education for Scotland, in collaboration with the Transforming Nursing Roles (TNR) Advanced Practice group, is hosting 3 regional events that will: Inform delegates of the national approach to advanced practice and the Scottish Government’s commitment that 500 additional ANPs will be trained by 2021. Provide guidance on the Service/education
Care at Home and Housing Support conference and awards It feels only right to begin where I left my last report, because the reflections and learning from our Care at Home and Housing Support conference have continued to resonate over the past fortnight. The conversations we initiated there, on rights,
There is a phrase that has accompanied social care for decades – person-centred. It has been spoken in training rooms, written into legislation, embedded in strategies, inscribed into inspection frameworks. It has become, in many ways, the lingua franca of good care. And yet, I increasingly find myself uneasy with
At 100 years old, Dennis Arnold is more than a resident of BCG Coupar Angus Care Home, he is a symbol of what the Scottish Care, Care Creates manifesto stands for: rights, dignity, participation, community, investment, wellbeing and a future we build together. Dennis, who spent his life in service
Stories of sustainability, wellbeing and connection across Scotland’s care services. Across Scotland, social care support is playing a vital role in responding to the climate challenge – not through abstract targets, but through everyday actions that protect wellbeing, strengthen communities and nurture our relationship with the natural world. Care that cares for people and the planet
There is a habit in Scotland, born of compassion, yes, but also of institutional muscle-memory, to treat social care as what happens after life has gone wrong. We reach for it when the fall has happened, when the carer is exhausted, when the dementia has advanced, when the discharge is
On a day that celebrates women, Renaissance Care is shining a spotlight on Anna Hoffmann, 57, recently appointed Home Manager at Cranford Care Home in Aberdeen
Scottish Care are excited to announce the launch of two brand-new SSSC Open Badges designed to empower care home managers and activity leads across Scotland.
As the calendar turns and we stand at the threshold of a new year, I find myself drawn to reflection not least on what I consider to have been the significant changes and developments in social care in the last year, and what this new one might bring. That for
Scottish Care is pleased to share an important opportunity to influence future research and policy on delirium care in the UK.
At the Global Ageing Conference in Boston, I found myself not just attending a keynote but entering a new narrative; a reframing of ageing that challenges our assumptions and invites us to imagine a different future. Dr. Joseph Coughlin, founder of the MIT AgeLab, delivered a speech that was both
The following is based on an opening address given a couple of weeks ago at the Westminster Policy Conference. We meet in autumn. The air is a lot sharper. The green has given away to the gold. We are between the light and the dark, between summer and winter. And
Latest bulletin from the Social Work Scotland SDS Project.
