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NIHR Newcastle Patient Safety Research Collaboration Logo QR Code Text: Check out our speakers for the “Technology-enabled Virtual Wards (or Hospital at Home Care)” event. Wednesday, 11th June 2025 The Great North Museum: Hancock, Newcastle upon Tyne. Image of Dr. Cristian Roman Senior Research Associate Institute of Biomedical Engineering (IBME) Department of Engineering Science  University of Oxford. Image of Dr Petra Makela, Vice Chancellor's Fellow in Community Wellbeing, Assistant Professor, Northumbria University. Image of Dr Lavinia Ferrante di Ruffano, Director of Review and Evidence Synthesis at York Health Economics Consortium (YHEC), University of York.

Meet the speakers for the "Technology-enabled Virtual Wards (or Hospital at Home Care) event, taking place on Wednesday, 11th June 2025, at The Great North Museum: Hancock, Newcastle upon Tyne. Registration open.

@newcastleuni.bsky.social @nihr.bsky.social @medicalsciencesncl.bsky.social

NEW BOOK CHAPTERS Historical and future drivers of long-term care demand by Bo Hu and Raphael Wittenberg Financing of long-term care by Adelina Comas-Herrera, Eva Cyhlarova, Jayeeta Rajagopalan, Ishtar Govia, Zhanlian Feng How have countries worked to improve the quality of long-term care? By Juliette Malley, Valentina Zigante

NEW BOOK CHAPTERS! 📚
CPEC authors featured in the open-access 'The Care Dividend', exploring different aspects of projecting, financing + improving the quality of #LongTermCare.🔍

Access for free:👉
www.cambridge.org/core/books/t...

#OpenAccess @adelinacohe.bsky.social @juliettemalley.bsky.social

YouTube video by NIHR Applied Research Collaboration South London Social Care ImpRes

Social care and implementation researchers at ARC South London have produced a new guide to designing and conducting implementation research within social care. #ImpSci

👉 arc-sl.nihr.ac.uk/news-insight...

Thanks for sharing this excellent work @donnawakefield.bsky.social. The suitability and experience of home is likely to be so influential to community-based care, but rarely discussed.

The State of Ageing 2025 The State of Ageing is the most detailed and up-to-date report about ageing in England. Hover over the different chapter sections and central logo to find out more.

"One million pensioners are in material derivation meaning they cannot afford the basic necessities for a good life." Aideen goes on to point out.

Left Hand Side: NIHR Newcastle PSRC logo Image: Patient in bed at home, Healthcare professional checking observations in hospital. Right hand side: Calls for Abstracts now open: Technology-enabled Virtual Wards (or Hospital at Home care) Event. Deadline: 14th March 2025 23:59 Scan the QR code for more info QR code

Check out this call for abstracts: We are inviting abstracts for presentation.

To submit: email psrc@newcastle.ac.uk with the subject line: Abstract Submission – Virtual Wards June 2025.

Closing date: Friday, 14th of March 2025, 23:59.

@newcastleuni.bsky.social @medicalsciencesncl.bsky.social

I agree 💯. What's needed to drive change is both stories (vision) and meaningful data.

How to improve adult social care for seldom heard groups Monica Leverton and Jess Harris spoke at national NIHR event

How to improve adult social care for #seldomheard groups
News of @monicaleverton.bsky.social and Jess Harris speaking at a national NIHR event yesterday #dementia #homelessness - onward links to animations and infographics on our research findings @nihrsscr.bsky.social
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/how-to-...

Meeting of home care providers with members of the North East Patient Safety Collaboration

Great discussions today with a group of local home care organisations on care worker's roles in supporting people with multiple medications, building on work being done by @newcastlepsrc.bsky.social.

Final reminder for tomorrow's British Society of Gerontology - Technology & Ageing SIG webinar! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/british-so...

Still time to sign up to our @bsgtechagesig.bsky.social webinar on 4th Feb!
▶️Dr. Mélanie Couture: Using telemonitoring data to preserve the autonomy and safety of older adults.
▶️Dr. Minna-Liisa Luoma: Elderly care at home with age technologies and experiences to adopt technology.

Visual abstract

The average life expectancy of people diagnosed with dementia ranges from 9 years at age 60 to 4.5 years at age 85 for women, and from 6.5 to just over 2 years, respectively, in men, finds this systematic review of the evidence

Includes a visual abstract
www.bmj.com/content/388/...

Forced Closures of Care Homes in England: How Much Does Ownership Explain Care Failure? GOLTC Care Home Markets and Regulation Interest Group webinar Date: 27 January 2025 Time: 13.00-14.00 GMT (you can check your local time here.) Link: Register to join on Zoom

Forced Closures of Care Homes in England: How Much Does Ownership Explain Care Failure? ❗

Join us on Mon 27 Jan for the next #CareHomeMarkets + Regulation webinar feat. @andersb-m.bsky.social, @bengoodair.bsky.social, + Michelle Degli Esposti. 💡🏠

REGISTER: lse.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

"Tenemos que construir sistemas que nos hagan no tener miedo a ser una carga".
Muy buena entrevista con @adelinacohe.bsky.social

Quality in care homes: How wearable devices and social network analysis might help Social network analysis can support quality improvement in care homes but traditional approaches to social network analysis are not always feasible in care homes. Recalling contacts and movements in a...

Thanks for an excellent @goltc.bsky.social webinar, @thompa101.bsky.social fascinating to see how much can be learnt from tech to track people’s movements in #carehomes and mapping social networks, so many interesting questions! For anyone interested read journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...