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Dr Katharine Orellana

@katitao.bsky.social
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Gerontologist & researcher @HSCWRU @ARC_S_L #dunhillfellow. Interested in social care & older people. Views my own.

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Dr Katharine Orellana @katitao.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
A new location for the Day Centres Resources Hub: day-centre-resouces-hub.org.uk Has this & our other day centres work been useful for you? (see highlights www.kcl.ac/uk/research/... & kclpure.ac.uk/portal/en/pe...). How? Please let me know katharine.orellana@kcl.ac.uk
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Health and Social Care Workforce Research Unit @hscwru.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
The Day Centre Resources Hub has moved The practical tool for day centres and their professional stakeholders has a new website 👇 www.kcl.ac.uk/news/day-cen...
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The Day Centre Resources Hub has moved | King's College London
The practical tool for day centres and their professional stakeholders has a new website
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Vivensa Foundation @vivensa.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
📢 Our Joint British Geriatrics Society / Vivensa Foundation Doctoral Training Fellowship is open. Applicants can apply for up to £350,000 to carry out ageing-related research. The deadline is 20 March 2026, 5pm. More information: vivensafoundation.org.uk/apply-for-fu... @gerisoc.bsky.social
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Funding opportunities - Vivensa Foundation
We know that there’s a huge amount to do, so we need to prioritise.  We will be focusing on some key themes for support for our current plan period (which you can find in our Strategic Framework 2025-...
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Dr Katharine Orellana @katitao.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
#Socialworkers for #olderpeople #olderadults in South London: are you free to join an online roundtable to discuss prevention (& living alone) on 20th or 29th Jan or 11th Feb? See more in the string below. @basw-uk.bsky.social
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Dr Katharine Orellana @katitao.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Do you work in #socialcare, #health or #housing in #southLondon? Are you interested in the preventive role of home care, lunch clubs, men’s sheds or befriending services for #olderpeople #livingalone? Do you interact with people providing these services in your work? 1/4
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Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience @kingsioppn.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
New tool, co-developed by IoPPN researcher Dr Antonina Semkina, supports implementation research in social care, in collaborations with the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) South London #MedSky arc-sl.nihr.ac.uk/news-insight...
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New tool supports implementation research in social care
Social care and implementation researchers at ARC South London have produced a new guide to designing and conducting implementation research within social care.
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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 06/06/2025
This is the article:
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Why and how academic medicine must champion diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility
US President Donald Trump has launched a series of Executive Actions1 to dismantle diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility efforts; defund scientific research; and freeze federal funds and pro...
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Carl Purcell @carlpurcell.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Our reflections on several decades of regulatory reform that have aimed to address failings in the provision of care for children and young people and develop the children's residential care workforce @hscwru.bsky.social www.celcis.org/application/...
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Health and Social Care Workforce Research Unit @hscwru.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
A systematic narrative review of the research evidence of the impact of intersectionality on service engagement and help-seeking across different groups of women, trans women, and non-binary individuals experiencing homelessness and housing exclusion By Carolin Hess et al dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
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A systematic narrative review of the research evidence of the impact of intersectionality on service engagement and help-seeking across different groups of women, trans women, and non-binary individua...
Background Women with experience of homelessness face severe health inequalities, with their average age at death being nearly half that of the general population. Recent research emphasises the compo...
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Health and Social Care Workforce Research Unit @hscwru.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
📢 NEW ARTICLE Recognizing the contribution of older people's day centres to prevention agendas by Kritika Samsi & @katitao.bsky.social - under the @arc-southlondon.bsky.social social care theme at the Unit #OpenAccess News & blog introducing the article 👇 www.kcl.ac.uk/news/recogni...
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Recognizing the contribution of older people's day centres to prevention agendas
New article by Kritika Samsi and Katharine Orellana
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Health and Social Care Workforce Research Unit @hscwru.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Now up on the MHCLG website: Strengthening adult safeguarding response to homelessness and self-neglect, with Jess Harris, part of the Nov 2024 webinar - www.gov.uk/guidance/wor...
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Working across housing, social care and safeguarding to tackle long-term rough sleeping: webinar
Webinar to share research and best practice with colleagues across the homelessness and safeguarding adults sectors, to support effective multi-disciplinary working to help resolve rough sleeping for ...
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Dr Katharine Orellana @katitao.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Are you preparing to #commission local #olderpeople’s #daycentre provision? How much do you know about these services? Read about the research #evidence on the Day Centre Resources Hub arc-sl.nihr.ac.uk/day-centre-r... @arc-sl @hscwru
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Day Centre Resources Hub
These resources are for day centres and organisations who may work with them. They aim to support day centre sustainability by improving knowledge about them, supporting their operation and encouragin...
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Health and Social Care Workforce Research Unit @hscwru.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
Evaluation of Community Led Support receives European Social Services Award Unit researcher Chloe Waterman was co-investigator #ESSN2024 www.kcl.ac.uk/news/evaluat...
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