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Findings from a new Carers Trust survey provide alarming evidence of a deep-rooted failure by successive governments to understand and meet the basic support needs of millions of people struggling to provide unpaid care for a family member or friend. There is a near total sense among survey respondents of feeling abandoned by Government over […]
Read more...ClearView Research are carrying out a research project with Blood Cancer Alliance to gather insights about the lived experiences of people from ethnic minority communities who have or have had a blood cancer diagnosis. The insights they gather from this survey and their exploration lab discussions will be valuable in helping them work with key […]
Read more...Researchers at Kings College London are looking for people who provide care or support to family, friends or neighbours to take part in an online study into carers’ resilience. They want to hear from carers varied backgrounds and who are caring for people with a variety of physical or mental health conditions. You choose to […]
Read more...Do you work with young carers? Or are you an academic whose research areas include young carers? You can join us and the University of Portsmouth for the Young Carers Research and Practice Forum on 27th September, 1-3:30pm This will be bringing together academics whose research areas include young carers and staff from young carers […]
Read more...Research at the University of East Anglia (UEA) is being conducted into the experiences of carers looking after a family member of friend, supporting someone with swallowing difficulties and dementia to drink well. This research project is being overseen the School of Health Sciences at UEA. They are recruiting participants to share your views and […]
Read more...Carers UK have launched a new survey for carers to help them understand carers’ experience of health services, support services and breaks during the COVID-19 pandemic. To give your views in the survey please click here. Carers UK has launched this survey to capture carers experiences of being able to or not being able to take […]
Read more...Researchers from the University of Kent are looking for study participants to help them to understand how well social care services support people living with dementia and their family and friends, who support them. Who is the research for? People living in England who are a family member or friend of someone living with dementia, […]
Read more...Mridhula Murali and the research team at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, are investigating how speech may change over time for people with Parkinson’s. Who do the researchers need? 40 people diagnosed with Parkinson’s who are over 35 years of age and speak fluent English. They must also have changes in their speech and must have access […]
Read more...Age UK has published new research showing how crushingly hard day to day life has been for millions of older people during the pandemic and how important it is that we support our older population through the winter. With a new lockdown about to start Caring Together is urging people looking after a friend or […]
Read more...We recently had a speaker from the Cambridge Institute for Music Therapy Research (Anglia Ruskin University) at our Shelford Hub and there was interest in the type music and reading programmes mentioned. There is now a piece of research being done on the effects of music and reading activities for people living with dementia and […]
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