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Past Care Home Research Forum Recordings

2025

Making the Invisible, Visible: Improving Human Rights for People Living in Social Care

Professor Emeritus Geraldine Van Bueren

Care Work in the Digital Age: How Technology Changes Daily Life in Care Homes

Professor Kate Hamblin

"Like Family": Care Home Workers' Experiences of Death, Grief and Relational Care

Keziah Florin-Sefton

Understanding Dementia Wellbeing in Mixed Care Homes

Arielle Rostant

The Vivaldi Social Project

Professor Laura Shallcross

Improving the Handover of Care from Hospital to Care Homes

Dr Calisha Allen

Research from Inside the Care Home

Professor Gill Livingston

Paying for Social Care: Different Approaches and Public Preferences

Raphael Wittenberg

Building Research Capacity and Capability in Social Care Nursing

Dr Zena Aldridge

Adult Social Care and Research: a Policy Perspective

Michelle Dyson CB

Welcome to the Care Home Research Forum 2025

CEO Jenny Pattinson

Research in our Home

Residents and team members

2024

Is Staff Pay a Factor in the Quality of Care Homes?

Dr Stephen Allan

24 Lancet Commission: How Can We Prevent Dementia?

Professor Gill Livingston

Care Homes, Are They the Hospices of the Future?

Dr Ros Taylor

Improving Sleep in Dementia: DREAMS START Study

Professor Penny Rapaport

Intergenerational Care

Judith Ish-Horowicz, MBE

Translating Research into Practice: Promoting Continence in Dementia Care

Dr Zena Aldridge

Social Care Nursing Research: Catalyst for Change

Professor Deborah Sturdy CBE

The Social Connection in Long Term Care Home (SONNET) Scale

Dr Andrew Sommerlad

Nutrition Project with Nightingale Hammerson

Dr Adrian Slee

Are Two People Always Required for Moving and Handling?

Rosalind Gray

Improving the Oral Health of Older People in Care Homes: the TOPIC Study

Professor Georgios Tsakos

Social Care Research, Dementia Prevention & End-of-Life

Nuno Santos Lopes

Funding Crisis, Staff Pay and Resilience

Jenny Pattinson

Care Home Research Forum 2024 Full Video

2023

Is There an Optimal Time to Move to a Care Home?

Dr Kritika Samsi

Funding of Long-Term Care for Older People

Raphael Wittenberg

L'Dor vaDor: From Small Beginnings to Societal Change, Developments in the Field of Intergenerational Practice

Judith Ish-Horowicz MBE

Caring Through Connection: The SONNET Study

Dr Andrew Sommerlad

Non-Pharmacological Support for People Living with Dementia

Dr Ally Tomlins

Network of Care Home Researchers

Social Care Nursing: Untapping the Research Potential

Deborah Sturdy, CBE

Can Exercise Stop Dementia?

Professor Rowan Harwood

Bridging Research and Care: The Vital Role of Care Home Research for Better Living

Lynis Lewis

Care Home Research Forum 2023 Full Video

2022

Introduction and Welcome

Data to Evidence Outstanding Care in Care Homes

Professor Claire Goodman

Distress and Behaviour in Care Home Residents

Professor Gill Livingston

Impact of Covid-19 in Care Homes: An International Overview

Dr Aida Suárez González

Human Rights in Care Homes

Dr Caroline Green

Rehabilitation in Care Homes

Therapies Team

The Network of Care Home Researchers

Closing Reflections

Nuno Santos Lopes and Dr Jackie Morris

2021

Introduction and Welcome

Helen Simmons

Quality of Life in Dementia

Professor Gill Livingston

Non-pharmacological Support for People Living with Dementia in Care Homes

Dr Jeanette Van Luyn

Building Relationships Between the Generations

Judith Ish-Horowicz, MBE

Palliative Care in Care Homes

Helen King

The Role of Therapies in a Care Home

Rosalind Gray, Caryn Straker and Alastair Addison

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