Care and create – realise potential!
By Karen Reid, Chief Executive, Care Inspectorate
Whether we think it or not, we are all creative – everything we do in life has some element of creativity about it. Some of us, granted, may be more creative than others and some indeed gifted. However, as work on the resource pack Arts in Care revealed, no matter what age or stage in life we are at, or ability, being creative can bring meaning, purpose and fulfilment to lives and help people to live well.
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Care About Physical Activity
Edith Macintosh, Head of Improvement Support
Is it the chicken or the egg?
We probably all know of an older person with rich life experiences and great stories to tell. We might also know that this person has become less active over time and see this as a natural part of ageing. At the same time we might be concerned about failing strength, mobility and independence and the possibility of falling. So which comes first – the chicken or the egg? Do we lose abilities because we are moving less often and becoming less active, or become less active because we lose abilities?
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World Continence Week 2017
This year's World Continence Week is June 19-25. The theme, Incontinence: No laughing matter, tackles a common response by people to laugh off incontinence, accepting it as an inevitable part of childbirth or ageing, not a health issue requiring specialist treatment.
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Chief Executive Karen Reid welcomes the new Health and Social Care Standards
Karen Reid, Chief Executive, Care Inspectorate
I believe Scotland’s new Health and Social Care Standards will be amongst the most progressive and radical anywhere in the world and I look forward to their implementation over the coming months. Almost everyone in Scotland will use a care service at some point in their lives, whether that is a nursery or a childminder, a care at home service or a care home. More people of all ages and experience are coming into contact with care.
The new standards have been produced together by a broad range of people from the public, private, voluntary and third sector, through partnership and collaboration, and with input from people who experience care, providers and other professionals.
When you read the new standards, they will look very different to the ones from 2002. They are relevant across all health and social care provision, rather than just in regulated settings, including across early learning childcare and children’s social work services, and they are significantly more rights-based and outcome-focused than those developed over 15 years ago.
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