Care Speaks
By Care Speaks
It is a half hour show talking all thinks social care from a broader perspective and hopefully challenging traditional models.
Care SpeaksFeb 15, 2023
Care Speaks Meets Emma Perry
In this episode Mervyn speaks to Emma Perry, Senior Lecturer in Social Work and PhD Student.
Emma is a qualified social worker and Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Gloucestershire. She has a practice background in local authority social work, working predominantly with older people. She has both researched and published on the topic of later life. Emma is also a PhD student at the University of Birmingham where she is researching new relationships in later life in residential and nursing homes. Her proposed thesis title is 'A qualitative study of new relationships in permanent care settings from the perspective of the non-care dwelling spouse/partner'.
Discussions include:
- What happens when older adults in long term care approach and form a relationship and also how they might respond to their partner forming a new intimate relationship
- What led Emma to this particular area of research, its propositions around the shifts in relationships and what they are - How are those relationships managed and negotiated within and between care settings
- What does Emma think of the American term " unintentional adultery'
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Care Speaks Meets Patricia Faulks
In this episode Mervyn speaks to Patricia Faulks, writer of the Just Me & Lilley blog, about ageing without children.
Discussions include: - The context of ageing without children and being child-free
- Patricia's personal reflections
- Why there has until recently been little attention by the Third Sector
- What are the Policy issues?
- What is required and by whom?
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Care Speaks Meets Jet Powell
In this episode Mervyn speak to Jet Powell, Director of Operations in the Health & Social Care Team at Social Finance, discussions include;
1. Social Finance; what it is & does
2. Revisiting Reconnections
3. How does Jet define "Healthy Communities"
4. Jet's involvement and approach to end of life.
5. What are the intersections with Social Care?
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Care Speaks Meets Shirley Ayres
In this episode Mervyn speaks to Shirley Ayres, Co-Founder of the Connected Care Network.
Shirley is a qualified social worker with post-grad qualifications in ethics, marketing and criminology. She collaborates with organisations exploring how technology supports innovations in supporting communities to address the challenges of providing care and wellbeing. Shirley is Co-Founder of the Connected Care Network and Co- editor of the Sexuality, Intimacy and Sexual Wellbeing in Later Life Provocation Paper.
Discussions include; - Long-Term Care; the present and Shirley's ambition for the future
- Alternatives to Long-term Care e.g. Small Homes
- Exploring how technology supports innovations including robots & the possible implications of artificial intelligence
- Sexuality in Later Life
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Care Speaks Meets Dr Paul Simpson
In this episode Mervyn meets Dr Paul Simpson, Senior Lecturer of Sociology at the University of Manchester. Discussions include;
1. What is meant by 'Disadvantaged Men' and the challenges and messages
2. Desexualisation and re-sexualisation
3. Middle-aged and older gay men "over the rainbow"
4. Sex and Diversity in Later Life
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Care Speaks Meets Lucy Series
In this episode Mervyn speaks to Lucy Series, a lecturer in the School for Policy Studies at Bristol University.
Discussions include;
1. Lucy's career and academic & personal journey across law, psychology, health and social care
2. Explaining the Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act
3. What are the problems we are trying to solve and can law /legislation actually address and solve this kind of problem?
4. The key messages from Lucy's book 'Deprivation of Liberty in the Shadows of the Institution' and what is the human rights approach?
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Care Speaks Meets Peter Phillips
In this episode Mervyn speaks to Peter Phillips, an ECB Level 2 Cricket coach for Essex Cricket in the Community to discuss;
1. Peter's experiences in coaching young and older people, plus how they benefit emotionally, behaviourally, mentally and physically
2. The challenges involved with working with schools, clubs, communities etc
3. Peter's attitude and approach to ageing
4. Walking Cricket
6. Player centred coaching
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Care Speaks meets Georgina Lee
In this episode Mervyn speaks to Georgina Lee, Head of Communications and Engagement at the National Innovation Centre for Ageing to discuss changing the current negative narrative around growing older.
1. The Common Land. What it was and what it attempted (and did) achieve
2. The Age of No Retirement
3. Creative Leaders
4. This Curious Life https://thiscuriouslife.uknica.co.uk/
5. Later Life Sexuality
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Care Speaks meets Patrick Ward
In this episode Mervyn speaks to Patrick Ward, Community Development Manager with Essex Cricket in the Community.
Discussions include;
- what are the aims of Essex Cricket in the Community
- how to encourage opportunities for older adults & those with disabilities
- Disability Champion Clubs
- how to get disadvantaged communities involved
- combatting loneliness and the social side of cricket
- What are Essex Cricket in the Community's hopes over the next few years to increase diversity?
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Care Speaks Meets Dr Simon Duffy
In this episode Mervyn meets Dr Simon Duffy, President of Citizens Network, a global non-profit cooperative with members in 34 countries, to discuss;
1. Citizen Network: The 7 keys
2. The UNI Lab Network
3. The Social Care landscape / Professional Gift Models
4. Personalization & Simon's view of the future
5. Simon's thoughts about the Citizenship model & social care in 10 years
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Care Speaks Meets Dave Martin
In this episode Mervyn meets Associate Dave Martin to discuss ageism in society generally and in Health & Social Care.
1. What took Dave to Canopy from his LA, Better Government for Older People and Centre on Policy for Ageing engagement?
2. Defining ageism
3. The Mission of Canopy; Life course thinking/ intergenerational connectivity / transitions thinking not Age thinking. Canopy – A Social Imagination Project
4. What is the Social Imagination Compass
5. Better Birthdays Take the Survey — Better Birthdays
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Care Speaks Meets Richard Mazuch
In this episode Mervyn meets Richard Mazuch, Director of Design Research and Innovation, ARCADIS to discuss;
1. What took him into the field of architecture and design & developing a lifelong interest in the challenges of healthcare projects
2. Explaining holistic/ radical and pragmatic solutions?
3. The interrelationship between psychology and physiology of those within health and social care environments.
- Sense Sensitive design
- Emotional Mapping
- Design prescription & explaining the hPod
4. How do designs/ buildings re-enforce institutionalization and conveyor-belt treatment and care, and why do we still see "off the shelf" designs?
5. What's changed over the past 20+ years? Are you optimistic given the challenges faced by NHS and Social Care? Arcadis. Improving quality of life | Arcadis
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Care Speaks Meets Sian Lockwood
In this episode Mervyn meets freelance consultant Sian Lockwood OBE, FRSA, Co-chair of Coalition for Personalised Care, to discuss;
1. What is meant by Care.
2. Community Catalysts: what it is and does
3. The Coalition for Personalized Care
4. Sian's take on the importance of leadership in helping communities build their strengths and develop solutions. What is meant by "helping systems to transform to allow community solutions. What does that look like.
5. Is Sian optimistic about the future of Social Care and its direction of travel
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Care Speaks meets Rob Fountain
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Care Speaks meets Veronika Susedkova
In this episode Mervyn speaks to Veronika Susedkova, Director & Secretary of the Co-operative Care Colne Valley, a multi-stakeholder co-operative established to provide high-quality domiciliary care for older and disabled people. In this episode they discuss;
1. The Co-operative Care Colne Valley and the Sharing Care Project: What it is, what it provides and how it came about.
2. Veronika's role and the journey she and the Co-operative Care have been on regarding Structure/ CQC registration/ Care Store and Business and Finance
3. The link with the local community
4. The challenges and opportunities of being a cooperative
Home - Co-operative Care Colne Valley (valleycare.coop)
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Care Speaks Meets Dr Jane Youell
In this episode, Mervyn meets Dr Jane Youell, chartered psychologist and an experienced qualitative researcher with particular interests in dementia, autism, learning disability, end of life care, death and dying, family and relationships. In this episode they discuss
1.Ageing and the LGBTI+ community
2. Rainbow Tick and its actual and potential impact on cultural change within later life organisations and The six standards and their potential application
3. Janes contribution to the recent Provocation Paper: Key themes were: how sex is framed/later life sexuality is framed; assumptions and presumptions; asexuality; definitions of what "inappropriate behaviour" and the notion of 'managing-even controlling.
4.The meaning and value of Safe Spaces
5.The legal framework around dementia (MCA/DLS) etc
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Care Speak Meets Neil Carpenter
In this episode, Mervyn meets Neil Carpenter, author of "Benefits on Trial". They discuss
1. What PIP is and the background and context of Benefits on Trial
2. Sarah and Ben's story/experience
3. Various chapters from the book
4. What is to be done? How will Independent Tribunals set this right?
Care Speaks Meets Galinia Poliakova
In this epsiode, Mervyn meets the inspirational Galinia Poliakova who gives her account of her current experience of the war in Ukraine, especially the start of the invasion.
- Galinia gives an intimiate view of
- The moment of invasion
- How she has re-evaulated her values
- How she has learnt to love and hate - but only now learnt what real love and hate mean
- The experience of your volunteers and older people she supportsTthe current position in Dnipro
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Care Speaks Meets Sion Whellens
When Mervyn met Sion Whellens, Co-operatives advisor amongs many other things, the discussed:
- What cooperatives are
- How and why LLARC, as a coop, can be relevant in radio and community-based broadcasting?
- What are the challenges of care coops - start-ups in a world of private sector provision?
- The European Federation of Co-operatives - what can we learn
- The Principles of Coop
Join us for what is, as always, an educational and fun show.
Care Speaks Meets Arlind Reuter
In this episode, Mervyn catches up with LLARC founder and colleage Arlind Reuter. The Later Life Audio and Radio Cooperative (LLARC) is an award-winning and growing network of older radio show hosts, age-friendly radio stations, voluntary and community sector organisations and academic researchers working on age-related issues. We advocate for greater representation of older people in public debates.
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Care Speaks Meets Sharon Hinchliff
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Care Speaks meets Simon Jarret
In this episode, Mervyn catches up with Simon Jarret, Author of "Those they called idiots - the idea of the disabled mind from 1700 to the present day 2020"
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Care Speaks Meets Dr Karen Rennie
In this episode, Mervyn meets Dr Karen Rennie, Lecturer in Nursing at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh.
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Care Speaks Meets Paul Richards and Daniel Randall-Nason
Mervyn meets Paul Richards, Executive Director of the Stay Up Late charity and Daniel Randall-Nason, Trustee of Stay Up Late. Stay Up Late are a charity that believe that all people with learning disabilities, and autistic people, should be able to lead full and active social lives. This is not only important for peoples’ mental health it’s also good for the health of the whole community.
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Care Speaks Meets James Lewis
In this episode, Mervyn meets with James Lewis, CEO of Action For Elders.
Care Speaks meets Karl Womak
In this episode, Mervy speaks to Karl Womak, a person who is currently living in a residential care setting and has don for most of his adult life. Karl is a keen social care advocate and activitst with a strong social media following and a published poet. Karl provides Mervyn with his own insight into what the problems facing social care are and what needs to be done to over come them
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Care Speaks Meets Esther Wiskerke
In this episode of Care Speaks, Mervyn meets with Esther Wiskerke, dementia researcher, to discuss 'Symbiosa'.
Mervyn and Esther touch upon:
- Eco Issues
- Unsuitable care settings/environments
- Intergenerational connectivity and much more
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Care Speaks Meets Roy Lilley
Join Mervyn as he hosts the inaugural episode of the Care Speaks podcast by the Institute of Health and Social Care Management in partnership with LLARC.
Mervyn's first guest to launch this brand new podcast is NHS and health writer legend Roy Lilley.
Introducing Care Speaks
Introducing the new Care Speaks podcast, hosted and produced by the Institute of Health and Social Care Management in partnership with Later Life Audio and Radio cooperative