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Eight in 10 councils in England are on course to bust their budget on adult social care by March, according to a survey said to show the “ongoing and intensifying pressures” facing the sector. Such conditions do not provide the environment in which the new Government’s proposed National Care Service “can hope to succeed”, the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (Adass) warned.
The innovative technology combines expertise in engineering and social work to proactively detect and intervene in incidents of violence in caregiving environments.
We present qualitative data from interviews and focus groups with people who have been incarcerated in prisons and/or jails in Colorado regarding their experiences with incarceration infrastructure, amplifying the voices of formerly incarcerated people to identify vulnerabilities which have been deliberately hidden by carceral social and institutional processes, and adding them to the academic dialogue around incarceration and climate change.
Asha Warsame) (right) led the way for her younger siblings, Ayan Warsame (left) and Abdi Najim Aban (center). All three graduated on the same spring day — Ayan with a master’s in social work and Abdi, a computer science degree.
Muscle mass and strength tend to wane over time. So do balance and other factors related to walking. These are all important to independent living and well-being. But it has not been clear which of these characteristics decline more quickly with age, and at what rates.
“During and after the pandemic, we see a greater difference between regions in terms of children’s weight. It even looks like it has exacerbated health inequalities,” explains Charlotte Nylander, a researcher at Uppsala University and the Centre for Clinical Research in Region Sörmland, where she is also a Senior Consultant in Child Health Care.