Prof Ann-Marie Towers
@AmmTowers
Professor (CHSS, University of Kent). Social care. Theme lead for ARCKSS. SSCR Leadership Fellow. ASCOT programme lead. Tweets my own.
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https://www.kent.ac.uk/chss/staff/research/towers_ann-marie.html 16-05-2012 17:47:28
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Really interesting to hear Dr Wenjing Zhang present this work on care moves at NIHR School for Social Care Research conference - take a look at the project resources on socialcaretalk.org
Knitwear and stripes NIHR School for Social Care Research #SSCR2024 Iria Cunha Prof Ann-Marie Towers Finn Turner-Berry💚 Mark Wilberforce
When Adelina ComasHerrera comes to the podium, everyone pulls out their phones! I had to wait for an unrestricted 📸
Impressive and truly crucial work of STRiDEEngland STRiDE Dementia Project on inequalities in care, treatment and support trajectories for people with dementia and family carers
Anthony LaMesa Robert Dingwall 🎯🏴 🇪🇺 Rejoin Prof Ann-Marie Towers Professor Chris Whitty #COVID technical report has a chapter on care homes, notes that information on resident experience, and on trade-offs is lacking. But the tools do exist to understand #socialcare outcomes - but not well known in health, the dominant culture gov.uk/government/pub…
Anthony LaMesa Robert Dingwall 🎯🏴 🇪🇺 Rejoin And measuring consequences of #PHSM is challenging. Prof Ann-Marie Towers and colleagues have recently done some great work exploring how #ASCOT pssru.ac.uk/ascot/outcome framework may be used in assessing wider impacts of #outbreak control. ASCOT needs to be better known
🫶 Care home residents receive much better care when they enjoy ‘family’ bonds with staff.
💪But staff must be empowered to create these bonds.
These are the findings of new School of Healthcare research - read on for more ➡️➡️➡️
leeds.ac.uk/main-index/new…
I've really missed NAHH conferences in person! The last time I attended in person was in 2018, in Harrogate, with a poster in tow.
Absolutely delighted to join #NAHHConf24 - this time for one of the keynote slots!
“The government’s talking about opening up career pathways for care workers. Lovely. But let’s look at unpaid travel time. Let’s look at that basic hourly rate. And let’s look at insecure contracts”.
100% with you all. We’ll keep pushing.
Homecare Association
'What we’re seeing isn’t some slow, careful rebalancing of the system. Instead, it’s just another messy, confused decline of something Britain was genuinely once good at, which contributed billions to the economy while projecting soft power abroad.' Here: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
What a dream team DACHA_Study. We missed you today Nick Smith Jenni Burton 💙💚 Barbara Hanratty Vanessa Davey . Thank you for hosting The Health Foundation and for a wonderful end of project meal Claire Goodman💚 .