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Grandfathers - Dementia carers

Grandfathers - Dementia carers

FromThinking Allowed


Grandfathers - Dementia carers

FromThinking Allowed

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Length:
29 minutes
Released:
Mar 22, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Grandfathers today: Laurie Taylor talks to Ann Buchanan, Senior Research Associate in the Department of Social Policy and Intervention at the University of Oxford, about the changing nature of grandfatherhood. She brought together a team of international scholars, from Finland to South Africa, who found that grandfathers were re-inventing themselves into a new, caring role in the wake of increased divorce, long parenthood and more active, elder lives. They're joined by the writer and broadcaster, Michael Bywater.

Dementia carers: Simon Bailey, Research Fellow in Sociology at the University of Manchester, talks about the findings of three National Health Service wards and one private care home in England. Staff are expected to provide person centred care which mitigates the loss of insight, personality and capacity associated with dementia. But, as his research demonstrates, direct care staff have only limited training and remuneration to deliver such quality care.

Producer: Jayne Egerton.
Released:
Mar 22, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

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