Tag Archives: long-term care

Care Technologies for Ageing Societies – Book Review, Part 2

Returning to the latest academic volume Care Technologies for Ageing Societies: An International Comparison (May 2023) in the Sustainable Care book series from Policy Press, Bristol University in the UK. As mentioned in part one of my review,the book serves as a current status report on how in comparison, five countries – (England, Australia, Germany, Canada and

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Living Longer Where We Want? A Multifaceted Discourse.

At the Agile Ageing Alliance Leaders Forum in London last month, on the panel titled Reimaging Care in the Community, Rebecca Jarvis of the Health Innovation Network in London referenced her 2020 report Alternatives to Long Term Institutional Care for Older People. As I quoted Jarvis from this well-written document “There is a range of different ‘housing with care’

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Today begins 12th year of the Change Rangers weekly blog!

“with the thoughts in the head, with the dark and the light, no use to stop and stare, and if you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there…” Any Road – George Harrison Before offering a brief retrospective on one topic which falls under my overall tag line “Recoding a Longevity

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IFA 2021 Conference. Unpacking the Language of Ageing and Care.

As varied my choices of topics were for individual sessions I attended over three days, (Nov.10-12), at the International Federation on Ageing 15th Global Conference on Ageing, IFA 2021 – now ten days later, ploughing through my notes and recalling the voices of the speakers – it confirmed to me how immense and diverse the language of ageing

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IFA 2021 Conference Partner Update 8 – One Week Away!

Only a week away to the International Federation on Ageing 15th Global Conference on Ageing, November 9-12. As with the 2018 conference, Change Rangers is once again a Conference Partner – and for IFA 2021 it’s the Virtual Experience for me. So convenient. Registered on the platform and found it easy to navigate the agenda, selected the sessions of

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On the Case File of Long-Term Care – 2

Neglected No More by André Picard serves as a definitive marker in time, as we think hard about where we all want to go with the design of a new continuum of care, and more importantly, how we want to live as our care needs change as we age over time. Not only is this

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