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Vanessa Davey

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Social care researcher @UniofNewcastle. Interested in new models of home-based long-term care and getting existing models right.

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Think Local Act Personal @tlap.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
📊 100% of learners say our new Direct Payments resources are useful. It's practical, positive learning that’s helping people feel more confident. Explore now: 🔗 thinklocalactpersonal.org.uk/DPresources #DirectPayments #SocialCare #SocialWork #ChoiceAndControl
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@Newcastlepsrc @newcastlepsrc.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Meet the speakers for the "Technology-enabled Virtual Wards (or Hospital at Home Care) event, taking place on Wednesday, 11th June 2025, at The Great North Museum: Hancock, Newcastle upon Tyne. Registration open. @newcastleuni.bsky.social @nihr.bsky.social @medicalsciencesncl.bsky.social
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Check out our speakers for the “Technology-enabled Virtual Wards (or Hospital at Home Care)” event.

Wednesday, 11th June 2025 
The Great North Museum: Hancock, Newcastle upon Tyne.

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Senior Research Associate
Institute of Biomedical Engineering (IBME)
Department of Engineering Science 
University of Oxford. 

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Image of Dr Lavinia Ferrante di Ruffano, Director of Review and Evidence Synthesis at York Health Economics Consortium (YHEC), University of York.
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Care Policy and Evaluation Centre (LSE) @cpeclse.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
NEW BOOK CHAPTERS! 📚 CPEC authors featured in the open-access 'The Care Dividend', exploring different aspects of projecting, financing + improving the quality of #LongTermCare.🔍 Access for free:👉 www.cambridge.org/core/books/t... #OpenAccess @adelinacohe.bsky.social @juliettemalley.bsky.social
NEW BOOK CHAPTERS
Historical and future drivers of long-term care demand by Bo Hu and Raphael Wittenberg
Financing of long-term care by Adelina Comas-Herrera, Eva Cyhlarova, Jayeeta Rajagopalan, Ishtar Govia, Zhanlian Feng
How have countries worked to improve the quality of long-term care? By Juliette Malley, Valentina Zigante
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Vanessa Davey @vdavey.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Thanks for sharing this excellent work @donnawakefield.bsky.social. The suitability and experience of home is likely to be so influential to community-based care, but rarely discussed.
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Centre for Ageing Better @ageingbetter.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
"One million pensioners are in material derivation meaning they cannot afford the basic necessities for a good life." Aideen goes on to point out.
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The State of Ageing 2025
The State of Ageing is the most detailed and up-to-date report about ageing in England. Hover over the different chapter sections and central logo to find out more.
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@Newcastlepsrc @newcastlepsrc.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Check out this call for abstracts: We are inviting abstracts for presentation. To submit: email psrc@newcastle.ac.uk with the subject line: Abstract Submission – Virtual Wards June 2025. Closing date: Friday, 14th of March 2025, 23:59. @newcastleuni.bsky.social @medicalsciencesncl.bsky.social
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Technology-enabled Virtual Wards (or Hospital at Home care) Event. Deadline: 14th March 2025 23:59

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Vanessa Davey @vdavey.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
I agree 💯. What's needed to drive change is both stories (vision) and meaningful data.
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Health and Social Care Workforce Research Unit @hscwru.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
How to improve adult social care for #seldomheard groups News of @monicaleverton.bsky.social and Jess Harris speaking at a national NIHR event yesterday #dementia #homelessness - onward links to animations and infographics on our research findings @nihrsscr.bsky.social www.kcl.ac.uk/news/how-to-...
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How to improve adult social care for seldom heard groups
Monica Leverton and Jess Harris spoke at national NIHR event
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Vanessa Davey @vdavey.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Great discussions today with a group of local home care organisations on care worker's roles in supporting people with multiple medications, building on work being done by @newcastlepsrc.bsky.social.
Meeting of home care providers with members of the North East Patient Safety Collaboration
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Vanessa Davey @vdavey.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Final reminder for tomorrow's British Society of Gerontology - Technology & Ageing SIG webinar! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/british-so...
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Vanessa Davey @vdavey.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Still time to sign up to our @bsgtechagesig.bsky.social webinar on 4th Feb! ▶️Dr. Mélanie Couture: Using telemonitoring data to preserve the autonomy and safety of older adults. ▶️Dr. Minna-Liisa Luoma: Elderly care at home with age technologies and experiences to adopt technology.
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The BMJ @bmj.com · 10/01/2025
The average life expectancy of people diagnosed with dementia ranges from 9 years at age 60 to 4.5 years at age 85 for women, and from 6.5 to just over 2 years, respectively, in men, finds this systematic review of the evidence Includes a visual abstract www.bmj.com/content/388/...
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Global Observatory of Long-Term Care @goltc.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Forced Closures of Care Homes in England: How Much Does Ownership Explain Care Failure? ❗ Join us on Mon 27 Jan for the next #CareHomeMarkets + Regulation webinar feat. @andersb-m.bsky.social, @bengoodair.bsky.social, + Michelle Degli Esposti. 💡🏠 REGISTER: lse.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Forced Closures of Care Homes in England: How Much Does Ownership Explain Care Failure?

GOLTC Care Home Markets and Regulation Interest Group webinar

Date: 27 January 2025
Time: 13.00-14.00 GMT (you can check your local time here.)
Link: Register to join on Zoom
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Vanessa Davey @vdavey.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
"Tenemos que construir sistemas que nos hagan no tener miedo a ser una carga". Muy buena entrevista con @adelinacohe.bsky.social
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Adelina Comas-Herrera @adelinacohe.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Thanks for an excellent @goltc.bsky.social webinar, @thompa101.bsky.social fascinating to see how much can be learnt from tech to track people’s movements in #carehomes and mapping social networks, so many interesting questions! For anyone interested read journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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Quality in care homes: How wearable devices and social network analysis might help
Social network analysis can support quality improvement in care homes but traditional approaches to social network analysis are not always feasible in care homes. Recalling contacts and movements in a...
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