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Care is a complex and important issue that affects everyone at some point in their life. The Centre for Care provides accessible evidence on care to inform changes that could improve the lives of millions of people. In the CARE MATTERS podcast, our researchers welcome experts in the field and those giving or receiving care to discuss crucial issues in social care, as we collectively attempt to make a positive difference to how care is experienced and provided. Produced by Dan Williamson at the University of Sheffield.
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Wednesday Apr 06, 2022
Wednesday Apr 06, 2022
Maria Cheshire-Allen (Researcher, at Swansea University) is joined by Irene Mortimer, (Swansea Carers Centre) and Jude Dale, (Dementia Friendly Swansea) to discuss how the concept of wellbeing as an enduring ideal defining what it means to live a ‘good life’ interacts with how care in older age is understood and experienced. Together, they reflect on whether, and how the concept translates into everyday experience or the ‘right to be me’ for family carers of older people living with dementia.
About Maria Cheshire-Allen
Maria is a qualitative researcher working at the Centre for Ageing and Dementia Research (CADR)- click here to go to the CADR website- at Swansea University, Wales UK. Her research interests include ageing, care, care ethics, and social care policy. Her research is informed by a previous career working in several policy and campaigning roles for NGOs in Wales, as well as working as a paid carer for older people with dementia. She has published in the areas of theory, policy and empirical research addressing questions concerning the wellbeing of family carers.
Her latest research article ‘No-one was clapping for us’: care, social justice and family carer wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic in Wales is published in the International Journal of Care and Caring and available to access here: (click here)
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The Dementia Hwb is part of Dementia Friendly Swansea, click here to go to their website or click here for their Facebook page
The Dementia Hwb is also on Twitter (click here) and Instagram (click here)
Swansea Carers Centre website: https://www.swanseacarerscentre.org.uk/
Swansea Carers Centre Twitter (click here), Facebook (click here) and Instagram (click here)
The CARE MATTERS Podcast is produced by Dan Williamson at the Centre for Care.
CIRCLE website: http://circle.group.shef.ac.uk/
---Intro/outro music: Ambient Cool by Sunsearcher is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0
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