Bhismadev Chakrabarti, Associate Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Reading, has been awarded a prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize by The Leverhulme Trust. Worth £100,000, the Philip Leverhulme Prizes recognise
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Serious illness, depression, addiction or aging can leave people in a state of powerlessness – feeling unable to change or improve their situation. Our friends, family and the professionals looking
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Technology that could alert you if your elderly parents fall ill at home or which could help dementia patients better manage their condition are being developed in a major new
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Skills for Care, Health Education England and Skills for Health are working in partnership to support workforce development to enable people who display behaviour which challenges to be supported well in their
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Sports historians and scientists from De Montfort University Leicester (DMU) are joining forces with a national charity to help reawaken sporting memories in older people to tackle dementia, depression and
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Skills for Health (SfH) has published the second in its Working Paper series, analysing what needs to be done to create a high quality sustainable support workforce in the UK’s
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The Who Cares? Trust has created Propel, an online resource providing full information about UK educational institutions’ pastoral and financial provision for care leavers, as well as inspirational stories from
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The University of Strathclyde and Centre For Excellence In Looked After Children In Scotland (CELCIS) are once again running their popular Caring for Vulnerable Children course in January. The course,
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A partnership between Edge Hill University and two hospitals in Mysore, India is delivering crucial mental health interventions in the country, with the first round of training for nursing staff
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A new scheme designed to encourage more looked after children into higher education has been launched by the University of Wolverhampton. Aspire2Uni, spearheaded by the University’s Access and Outreach department,
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