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This podcast highlights issues related to social care. We find out the funny, shocking and inspiring stories about care and hear from ministers, care professionals, celebrities and people giving and r... more
FAQs about Let's Talk About Care:How many episodes does Let's Talk About Care have?The podcast currently has 31 episodes available.
October 26, 2022Ep.30 Meet Joy Milne: The woman who can sniff out Parkinson's, Alzheimer's & cancerHost Angeline Albert talks to Joy Milne about what it's like to smell Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, cancer and other diseases. Her rare hereditary condition also meant she could smell her husband's Parkinson's 12 years before he was diagnosed. . ...more26minPlay
August 10, 2022Ep. 29 Kari Gerstheimer, Access Social Care CEO reveals how some battles for care are so 'harrowing' lawyers need counsellingHost Jill Rennie talks to Kari Gerstheimer about why she set up the charity and how the charity is giving free legal advice to thousands of elderly and disabled people to access social care when they need it and how the lack of funding and social care workforce shortage is exacerbating the crisis and increasing the workload of the charity....more26minPlay
June 14, 2022Ep. 28 Comedian Pope Lonergan talks about his new book 'I'll Die After Bingo' and his life as a care home workerHost Jill Rennie talks to comedian and author Pope Lonergan about his new book where he shares his raw and honest account of his time working as a care worker, his thoughts on care workers’ wages and retention, the need for society and the government to appreciate care workers and value the work they do, and his care home tour where he performs alongside the residents....more37minPlay
April 27, 2022Ep. 27 Dr Jane Townson, CEO of the Homecare Association talks about infection control fund, overseas recruitment and cost of living crisisHost Jill Rennie talks to Dr Jane Townson about care workers being denied sick pay because the government has scrapped the infection control fund exacerbating workforce shortages, the problems providers are currently having when they try to recruit overseas care workers and how future technology used through the power of television could be a way to maintain people’s health at home....more1hPlay
March 29, 2022Ep.26 Long Covid left us bedbound for a year say Antony Loveless and Claire HooperHost Angeline Albert talks to Antony Loveless and former nurse Claire Hooper who describe how long Covid left them bedbound for the whole year in 2021. ...more29minPlay
February 28, 2022Ep. 25 Amanda Woodvine, CEO of Vegetarian for Life talks about respecting beliefs of vegetarians and vegans in care homesHost Sue Learner talks to Amanda Woodvine about the importance of respecting the beliefs of older vegetarians and vegans living in care homes, many of whom have dementia and will have forgotten they don't eat meat...more31minPlay
November 30, 2021Ep.24 Vic Rayner, CEO of the National Care Forum talks about care staff shortages, the need for pay increase and mandatory vaccineHost Jill Rennie talks to Vic Rayner, CEO of the National Care Forum (NCF) about how social care is viewed in the eyes of the government since the pandemic, how the government should have handled the mandatory vaccine policy and how technology will play an integral role in the future of social care....more39minPlay
October 21, 2021Ep.23 Camille Leavold, Abbots Care director talks about mandatory vaccines and the recruitment crisisHost Sue Learner talks to Camille Leavold, managing director of Abbots Care, a home care provider in the south east of England, about how they have been coping during the pandemic, what she thinks of mandatory vaccination for home care workers and her solution for the recruitment crisis....more39minPlay
September 28, 2021Ep.22 Is football a killer? Dr Willie Stewart says headers aren't worth high dementia riskHost Angeline Albert talks to traumatic brain injury expert Dr Willie Stewart who says footballs should be sold with a health warning because his study reveals professional footballers have a 5 times higher risk of getting Alzheimer's because of headers. ...more37minPlay
June 29, 2021Ep. 21 Stephen Chandler, president of care charity ADASS talks about fixing social care and appearing on PanoramaHost Jill Rennie talks to Stephen Chandler, president of ADASS, about adult social care, his appearance on BBC One's Panorama, the government's response to the pandemic and how care work is still undervalued and misunderstood....more42minPlay
FAQs about Let's Talk About Care:How many episodes does Let's Talk About Care have?The podcast currently has 31 episodes available.