@drdmacaskill
CEO Scottish Care - homecare & care homes. Hon.Prof, University of the West of Scotland; Chair, National Bereavement Charter Group; Chair, NDTi; Director, Global Ageing Network; Board Member, Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care. #candleforcare.
In my #podcast this week I share some thoughts from a recent speech on #adultprotection and safeguarding and consider how critical it is that we hold in balance issues of #autonomy and #choice with the desire to protect and reduce risk. #Humanrights at the heart.
open.spotify.com/episode/2f0a...
In this piece I share why I believe #adultprotection and #safeguarding must always balance #safety and #autonomy with #risk and restriction. Holding liberty and safety in one hand: #adultprotection and #humanrights
scottishcare.org/holding-libe...
In my #podcast this week I share some thoughts from a recent speech on #adultprotection and safeguarding and consider how critical it is that we hold in balance issues of #autonomy and #choice with the desire to protect and reduce risk. #Humanrights at the heart.
open.spotify.com/episode/2f0a...
In this piece I share why I believe #adultprotection and #safeguarding must always balance #safety and #autonomy with #risk and restriction. Holding liberty and safety in one hand: #adultprotection and #humanrights
scottishcare.org/holding-libe...
This week’s #podcast explores the lost idea of #apricity and what it might mean for #socialcare in #Scotland at a time of real neglect and lack of priority for the sector, people who are supported and the #workforce.
open.spotify.com/episode/2qCr...
#Apricity: The warmth that breaks winter: a reflection on #socialcare. #humanity #change #society #age #Spring
scottishcare.org/apricity-the...
I light tonight’s #candleforcare on #WorldHearingDay with a focus on how important it is that as a whole society we better understand the needs of all living with #hearing loss and impairment. #HearingCareForAll
Join me tonight at 7 pm in lighting this week’s #candleforcare on #WorldHearingDay. Nearly 1,000,000 people in #Scotland experience difficulties with hearing from young children to older adults. We need to be more #hearaware.
This week’s #podcast explores the lost idea of #apricity and what it might mean for #socialcare in #Scotland at a time of real neglect and lack of priority for the sector, people who are supported and the #workforce.
open.spotify.com/episode/2qCr...
#Apricity: The warmth that breaks winter: a reflection on #socialcare. #humanity #change #society #age #Spring
scottishcare.org/apricity-the...
In this week’s #podcast I explore the significance of #language in #socialcare and dementia support at the start of #GaelicWeek #SeachdainnaGàidhlig, #dementia, #belonging
open.spotify.com/episode/0bAO...
When words come home: Gaelic, memory and the meaning of #care. #SeachdainnaGàidhlig, #dementia, #Gaelic #socialcare, #GaelicWeek, #belonging
scottishcare.org/when-words-c...
The Nursing Delirium Screening Scale (NuDESC). Designed for inpatient monitoring for new #delirium.
I light tonight‘s #candleforcare in #HeartMonth with an emphasis on how important is that at all ages we attend to our #heart #health.
In this podcast, I explore the idea of #Love in #socialcare. Is it a term which is at all appropriate or does it encapsulate everything? #Compassion, #Dignity, #ValentinesDay, #Humanity. open.spotify.com/episode/2Trq...
Join me tonight in lighting this week’s #candleforcare at 7 pm. This is #HeartMonth and we all of us need to do more for our #heart to be healthy not least those who are of #olderage. #healthyheart.
A wonderful article.
'A familiar phrase can calm distress where medication cannot. A song can unlock connection when logic fails. A word spoken with the right rhythm and accent can say you are known in a way no care plan ever could.'
#carehomes ❤️
"if we accept a system that only meets “high‑level needs” while neglecting the human ones then we will end up with services that keep people alive but fail to help them live." - keeping people alive without context of what matters to them reduces their resilience to ill health.
In this week’s #podcast I explore the significance of #language in #socialcare and dementia support at the start of #GaelicWeek #SeachdainnaGàidhlig, #dementia, #belonging
open.spotify.com/episode/0bAO...
When words come home: Gaelic, memory and the meaning of #care. #SeachdainnaGàidhlig, #dementia, #Gaelic #socialcare, #GaelicWeek, #belonging
scottishcare.org/when-words-c...
At the rim of the world: #Love in the world of #care. #socialcare #workforce #ValentinesDay #compassion.
scottishcare.org/at-the-rim-o...
I light tonight’s #candleforcare on #RandomActsofKindnessDay. Every act of generosity and care we offer another shows that #kindnessmatters. Like a #daffodil breaking through a February frost it brings light and hope.
Join me tonight on #RandomActsofKindnessDay in lighting this week’s #candleforcare at 7 pm. Every day #kindnessmatters and makes us into the community we would want to be. #careaboutcare.
Love is central to social care, to all care. We romanticise a word that is the essence of humanity to protect data sets that cannot compute the enormity or the enormous impact of 'love'. Or perhaps we fear it's real cost...
In this podcast, I explore the idea of #Love in #socialcare. Is it a term which is at all appropriate or does it encapsulate everything? #Compassion, #Dignity, #ValentinesDay, #Humanity. open.spotify.com/episode/2Trq...
At the rim of the world: #Love in the world of #care. #socialcare #workforce #ValentinesDay #compassion.
scottishcare.org/at-the-rim-o...
A sense of betrayal: #socialcare and the SNP Government. #Budget, #RealLivingWage, #homecare, #carehome, #dignity, #workforce, #humanrights.
scottishcare.org/a-sense-of-b...
Join me tonight at 7 pm in lighting this week’s #candleforcare on #SaferInternetDay. We all of us need to be more confident and aware of what we can do to be safe online and to reduce the risk of #scams. #SID2026
People have a right to care but too often that right only comes to those who can afford to pay. Imagine if we turned that on health care....
