Relationships & Intimacy in Long-term Care
Dementia Researcher
04/13/20
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This week Anna Volkmer chairs a far reaching discussion exploring sexuality, relationships and intimacy in long-term and dementia care. There is there is limited research on what family members and front-line care home staff consider to be the best responses to the sexual expression of a person with dementia, whilst at the same time respecting relatives’ feelings, managing their possible distress and conflict. This week out panel share some insights on their work to address this challenging topic. This weeks panellist are Professor Jill Manthorpe, from King's College London who works on practice, policy and social work. Creating evidence and ideas about ways to improve systems of support. Next is Dr Dawne Garrett, Professional Lead for Older People and Dementia Care at the Royal College of Nursing. Her own research looks at experiences of sexual intimacy in older people in the context of partnership relationships. Finally, we have Esther Wiskerke, speaker, trainer, writer and dementia day care manager. Esther manages a day centre that specialises in managing Behavioural Psychological Symptoms of Dementia (BPSD) via a non-pharmaceutical approach. You can find out more about our panellists, and their work on our website www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk. A transcript of this podcast is also available here https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/podcast-relationships-and-intimacy-in-long-term-care Like what you hear? Please review, like, and share our podcast - and don't forget to subscribe to ensure you never miss an episode. Enjoy our content? We are pleased to announce that we are now running a Midday Lecture Webinars - find recordings of previous lectures and details on how to register for future events at www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/webinars This podcast is brought to you in association with Alzheimer's Research UK and Alzheimer's Society, who we thank for their ongoing support.
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Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in Dementia
March 30, 2020
•35m
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Maintaining your clinical identity & skills as an academic
April 27, 2020
•36m
Adam Smith talks with Dr Aida Gonzalez, Dr Daniel Jimenez both from University College London and Julieta Camino the University of East Anglia. Three panellists who all come from a clinical background and now find themselves working as academics. This week we explore how they maintain their clinical skills and identify, while working in academia. Academics with a clinical background and Clinical Academics may research similar things, however how they study and work can be very different. For one, being a clinician remain part of their day job, for others the clinical work may be left behind, but still be at the core of their research. Typically, a Clinical Academic will be part funded to enable them to split their time between their clinical work and research. But what about those who have broken away to study full time, but who need to maintain their clinical skills or even just remain in that space to support the research they’re doing? How do they maintain their skills and identity as clinicians? Particularly if they intend to return to practice. This weeks panel share their experiences on why clinical work remains important to their research, and how they avoid losing those skills which were learnt from years of training. You can find out more about our panellists, and their work on our website www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk. A transcript of this podcast is also available here www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/podcast-maintaining-your-clinical-identity-skills-as-an-academic Like what you hear? Please review, like, and share our podcast - and don't forget to subscribe to ensure you never miss an episode. Enjoy our content? We are pleased to announce that we are now running Midday Lecture Webinars - find recordings of previous lectures and details on how to register for future events at www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/webinars This podcast is brought to you in association with Alzheimer's Research UK and Alzheimer's Society, who we thank for their ongoing support.
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