Dr Katharine Orellana (@katitao) 's Twitter Profile
Dr Katharine Orellana

@katitao

Gerontologist & researcher @HSCWRU @ARC_S_L #dunhillfellow. Interested in social care. Views my own. (Lake Tebinquiche & Licancabur volcano, Chile)

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HSCWRU (@hscwru) 's Twitter Profile Photo

New in the webinar series: LGBTQ+ life courses – health and social care research "Exploring living with dementia - LGBTQ+ perspectives using Photovoice" 14 January 2025 12:30 to 13:30 Open to all- kcl.ac.uk/events/explori…

Monica Leverton đźź§ (@monicaleverton) 's Twitter Profile Photo

One week to go until our November Home Care Research Forum, with talks on digital care management systems, and international recruitment in #homecare. The Forum is online, FREE, and open for all to attend. Make sure to register through Eventbrite: tinyurl.com/wxbkhcrf

Olivia Luijnenburg (@oluijnenburg) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Intern opportunity HSCWRU !! 📣 recruiting a qualitative research intern to work on dementia research. Closing date is 24th November: kcl.targetconnect.net/user/app/jobs/… King's Careers & Employability #intern #qualitativeresearch #dementia #recruiting

Prof Ann-Marie Towers (@ammtowers) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Inclusive research design is an NIHR priority from 27/11. Good opportunity to remind #socialcare researchers that if they are looking for an #inclusive #outcome measure the ASCOT is available in different formats and languages already. pssru.ac.uk/ascot/

Jill Manthorpe (@jillmanthorpe) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Thanks to NIHR for funding - seasonally sadly timely - Supporting older people experiencing homelessness and memory problems in hostels: Learning from an ethnographic study academic.oup.com/gerontologist/…

Prof Ann-Marie Towers (@ammtowers) 's Twitter Profile Photo

New scoping review on older people's care transitions now available, led by Dr Wenjing Zhang NIHR School for Social Care Research "The review highlights the critical need for comprehensive support and guidance during older people’s moves between care settings." journal.ilpnetwork.org/articles/10.31…

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For growth, #SharedLives schemes need (1) collaborative working with social workers; (2) leadership at different levels; (3) mechanisms to harness knowledge & evidence; (4) investment in staff & carers. See academic.oup.com/bjsw/article/d… Carl Purcell Jill Manthorpe Juliette Malley

HSCWRU (@hscwru) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Pleased to share the below job post for a post-doc research associate to join us in this Unit on an exciting new health and social care project. This is a full-time post for 30 months. Accepting applications until 29th Jan. kcl.ac.uk/jobs/103567-re…

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Unit research presented at Partners in Care and Health Over 1000 attendees at LGA/ADASS webinar heard emerging findings from MCA/homelessness study yesterday kcl.ac.uk/news/unit-rese…

Dewis Choice (@choiceolderppl) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Domestic abuse and dementia create complex challenges. Our free toolkit offers practical advice for supporting older survivors, whether they care for someone with dementia, have dementia, or both the survivor and abuser have dementia. 📗 Download now: dewischoice.org.uk/wp-content/upl…

Domestic abuse and dementia create complex challenges. Our free toolkit offers practical advice for supporting older survivors, whether they care for someone with dementia, have dementia, or both the survivor and abuser have dementia.
📗 Download now: dewischoice.org.uk/wp-content/upl…
Prof Ann-Marie Towers (@ammtowers) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Closing date 29 January 2025. Still time to apply. Really nice project and fantastic team. We'd like to hear from #postdocs and those nearing completion of #PhD in a closely related discipline/field. Esp those with experience in #health #socialcare in the community

Prof Ann-Marie Towers (@ammtowers) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Not too late to register for this NIHR webinar about improving #socialcare for #seldomheard groups tomorrow with the fantastic Monica Leverton 🟧 and Jess Harris from HSCWRU gmg-lgcgroup.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

NIHR ARC South London (@arc_s_l) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Join this short course for health and social care practitioners, policymakers and researchers interested in learning more about implementation science. #ImpSci arc-sl.nihr.ac.uk/imp-sci-module

Join this short course for health and social care practitioners, policymakers and researchers interested in learning more about implementation science. #ImpSci

arc-sl.nihr.ac.uk/imp-sci-module
Monica Leverton đźź§ (@monicaleverton) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Delighted to introduce our new 30-month research project at HSCWRU starting this month. With a focus on homecare & role expansion, this timely work is at the interface of health & social care, funded by National Institute for Health and Care Research. Read more on our project webpage: kcl.ac.uk/research/homec…

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'Approaches to the mental capacity assessment of people experiencing multiple exclusion homelessness in England: A scoping paper' Findings from this interview study by Stephen Martineau are informing the ongoing project on this topic at the Unit kcl.ac.uk/news/capacity-…

Jill Manthorpe (@jillmanthorpe) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Good to see this has already been read by 4k+ - thanks to all participants Experiences of Carers and People with Dementia from Ethnic Minority Groups Managing Eating and Drinking at Home in the UK mdpi.com/1669878 #mdpinutrients via Nutrients MDPI

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📢 NEW ARTICLE Recognizing the contribution of older people's day centres to prevention agendas by Kritika Samsi & Dr Katharine Orellana - under the NIHR ARC South London social care theme at the Unit #OpenAccess News, blog introducing the article 👇 kcl.ac.uk/news/recognizi…

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Up now on our blog, public member Pauline Jones gives her round-up of the Dementia Community Research Network (DCRN)'s annual public engagement event, which took place earlier this week as part of #DementiaActionWeek. 👇 arc-sl.nihr.ac.uk/news-insights/…

Up now on our blog, public member Pauline Jones gives her round-up of the Dementia Community Research Network (DCRN)'s annual public engagement event, which took place earlier this week as part of #DementiaActionWeek. 👇

arc-sl.nihr.ac.uk/news-insights/…
HSCWRU (@hscwru) 's Twitter Profile Photo

NEW Practitioners as researchers – experiences of four people working in hybrid roles in two local authorities and a university John Woolham et al tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…