The Annual Scottish Care – Care Home Conference, Exhibition and Awards take place tomorrow.
Held at the Hilton Hotel on William Street in Glasgow, the Conference is the biggest of it’s kind focussing on the Independent care sector in Scotland.
We are hugely looking forward to welcoming all our delegates, exhibitors and nominees for the Conference, Exhibition and Care Awards.
If you would like to download the programme for the Conference you can find that HERE
Inverness New Models of Care Workshop
Spectrum Centre 12th December 1.30pm – 4.30pm
Scottish Care will therefore be hosting a New Models of Care workshop for care home providers in the Highlands on Monday 12th December 1.30pm-4.30 pm, at the Spectrum Centre in Inverness. This interactive event will be facilitated by Dr Donald Macaskill, Scottish Care’s CEO.
The landscape of health and social care in Scotland is changing:
All of these changes mean services are considering how they can develop and innovate for the future. Some have already got learning and good practice to share, others have ideas about how they would like to develop their provision, whilst others are unclear how to ensure their services are fit for the future or are experiencing barriers to innovation.
At whatever stage of their innovation journey, it is essential that providers’ knowledge, experience and ideas are central to shaping local planning.
Please contact Julie Hodges [email protected] to reserve your place.
The Annual Care Home Conference takes place this Friday at the Hilton Hotel in Glasgow.
The event in association with the Clydesdale Bank will this year feature on the theme”Care Homes at The Heart” and will examine aspects of the unique place and value of the care home within the community.
We have some excellent speakers and contributors at Conference the year in addition to a number of ‘insight sessions’ which take place at our Conference for the first time this year. We will have a range of exhibitors from across the care sector taking part in the event and there is ample opportunity to network with colleagues from across the care sector at the event.
Speakers this year include the Cabinet Secretary for Health Shona Robison, Sir Lewis Ritchie, Rami Okasha and Kevin Mitchell from the Care Inspectorate, Sally Loudon from COSLA, the public premiere of the Bafta winning ‘Merchiston Presents’ films from Duncan Cowles and so much more.
Some tickets are still available for the Conference which you can buy online here
The programme for the Scottish Care Care Home Conference is available here
care-home-conference-programme
It’s now just over a week away until Scottish Care’s Annual Care Home Conference and Exhibition at the Hilton Hotel in Glasgow and we hope you can make it!
With an engaging and informative line up of speakers, exhibitors and workshops we are set for a hugely positive day.
The programme includes keynote inputs from Shona Robison, Cabinet Secretary for Health & Sport, an interview with Rami Okasha & Kevin Mitchell of the Care Inspectorate and Sally Loudon the new Chief Executive of CoSLA talking about Care Homes at the Heart of…Reform and lots more.
This is the only national conference devoted to Care Home provision in Scotland and a crucial opportunity for us to raise the profile of the sector and we need your support to do this. Please make sure of your places and book now.
Day Delegate tickets for Scottish Care members are £60 each inclusive of VAT and can be reserved by phoning: 01292 270240 or email: [email protected] or by going on line at: www.carehomeconference2016.eventbrite.co.uk (Card Payment Only)
It was in Shakespeare’s tale of warring families and the star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet where this questioning phrase first appeared:
So what is indeed in a name?
Names have a power and an intensity all of their own. By naming we impart identity and belonging, association and family. Names can confer status and meaning. Just look at the number of books aspirant parents can purchase when they are at the point of choosing a name for their as yet unborn child. Equally names can indicate age or cultural background and heritage. Indeed not so long ago there was a debate about whether some names were more likely than others to offer greater advancement and opportunity to their holder.
What we are called matters to us. We grow into our birth names, or change or shorten or adapt them to suit who we are and what we want to present to the world.
So it is important that we hold on to that part of our identity which is captured in the way in which we allow and expect others to address us.
The American novelist and blogger Ronni Bennett (see www.timegoesby.net/) was advanced in years when she wrote:
When I first started working in social services it was not uncommon for staff, especially for folks with a learning disability, to use language such as ‘the girls’ or ‘the boys’ or to treat individuals in a manner as if despite their elder age, they had somehow moved to the other end of the age spectrum. Most said at the time that it portrayed a sense of caring and nurture. I remember too how a very proud older relative objected audibly to me that she was made to feel like a child by the staff in the hospital ward she was temporarily resident within.
In older people’s services in care homes and care at home/housing support I think by in large we have long since moved on to use language respectful of age and individuality. The same alas is not true of wider society.
I still come across professionals and others in our communities whose attitudes to age and those who are old are very unreconstructed. Names or language may seem an incidental issue on which to focus but its an issue that lies at the heart of the dignity and human valuing which good care and support offers.
But language can also foster and perpetuate stereotypes. I have read recently of the work of Becca Levy, the Yale professor of epidemiology and psychology. Her research focuses on ageism and highlights that most of the stereotypes around ageism are developed and adapted when we are still very young. Reinforced as we grow older, they can then become self-stereotypes with dangerous consequences. Her studies have shown these negative beliefs can diminish our own individual capacities and can as a consequence reduce and affect the quality of our life and longevity.
So according to Levy it is very important that we counter negative stereotyping with positive images of ageing and being old with our young children. Her work highlighted one study where 66 percent of 4 to 7-year-olds said they wouldn’t want to be old. In another, the majority of reactions from all children asked how they’d feel about becoming elderly were rated as negative. They included, “I would feel awful.”
Seeing age as a positive in nursery rather than as something to be avoided would be a start to addressing the stereotypes! Using language and names that affirm individuality and identity rather than using language to depersonalise and diminish would equally help.
So what’s in a name? The whole of a person’s life, rich and potential; full and meaningful; past story and future living. So let’s not limit our naming and let’s challenge the stereotypes.
Dr Donald Macaskill
Scottish Care would like to announce it has entered into a partnership agreement with the Clydesdale Bank for a period of 3 years. The agreement will see the organisations work together for the benefit of the independent care sector in Scotland with the bank supporting a number of Scottish Care events and initiatives.
“I am delighted to welcome Clydesdale Bank into a partnership agreement with Scottish Care. Our membership covers the length and breadth of Scotland and we are pleased to enter into a new relationship, which goes beyond our sponsor supporting our annual, Care Home Conference and Awards.
We look forward to the next three years where we will work with colleagues at the Clydesdale Bank to ensure that at a time of significant change and flux in the care sector we are both able to support our distinctive pieces of work. We hope this will be seen in our joint working including through seminars and workshops which will run throughout the country.”
Dr Donald Macaskill,
Chief Executive of Scottish Care
Derek Breingan. Head of Health and Social Care Sector UK, Clydesdale Bank said:
“The care sector is incredibly important to the Scottish economy and plays a valuable role in communities across the country. Despite the challenges, care providers are investing, innovating and enhancing the services they provide to continue delivering excellent levels of care. We have been working with care providers for many years and, as a very important part of our business, Clydesdale Bank is delighted to be partnering with Scottish Care and to be involved in this event which provides a fantastic platform to promote Scotland’s care home sector”
For enquiries:
Jamie McGeechan
Communications and Events Officer, Scottish Care
01292 270 240
It’s now only 2 weeks to go until the Annual Care Home Conference and Exhibition on Friday 18th November at the Hilton Hotel in Glasgow!
With a great programme (see attached), engaging speakers from across the sector and a wide range of industry exhibitors we are set for another great Conference and Exhibition.
It’s an event not to be missed, with keynote inputs from Shona Robison, Cabinet Secretary for Health & Sport, an interview with Rami Okasha & Kevin Mitchell of the Care Inspectorate and Sally Loudon the new Chief Executive of CoSLA talking about Care Homes at the Heart of…Reform and lots more.
This is the only national conference devoted to Care Home provision in Scotland and a unique opportunity to come together to learn, network and keep up to date with developments in the care sector in Scotland.
Please make sure of your places and book now.
Day Delegate tickets for Scottish Care members are £60 each inclusive of VAT and can be reserved by phoning: 01292 270240 or email: [email protected] or purchasing online at:
www.carehomeconference2016.eventbrite.co.uk
Audit Scotland also stressed that the public and people who access the range of social work services provided across Scotland must be more involved in shaping future provision, with a debate required “on the level, the nature and affordability of services.”
If you would like to find out more about the findings of the report as well as to contribute towards the debate on the future of Social Work in Scotland Scottish Care invite you to join us at an event in Glasgow on Wednesday 30th November to take part.
Dr Donald Macaskill, Scottish Care CEO said:
“Scottish Care is delighted to support this event. The Audit Scotland report raises important challenges and issues which need to be addressed by all partners to endure we continue to adequately support our most vulnerable citizens.”
The session will bring together a wide range of stakeholders to consider the issues raised in the report, stimulate discussion and gather views on the future direction of social work.
The event is open to:
To secure your free place or for more information please contact
Rhona Millar on 0141 404 0231 or you can email at [email protected]
Voices from the Front Line of Nursing
(Workforce Matters, Scottish Care – Katharine Ross and Elaine MacMaster)
Throughout September, members of the Scottish Care Team travelled to care homes across the country, interviewing nurses and asking them about their experiences of working in the social care sector.
We wanted to know what attracted them into the job, the challenges they faced and what made then want to stay or leave.
This insight session will explore the key findings and involve participants in identifying how the report’s recommendations can be most effectively progressed.
The Annual Scottish Care Care Home Awards and Dinner is now officially sold out with all tables allocated to our finalists, guests and partners.
The event, which takes place at the Hilton Hotel Glasgow on the evening of Friday 18th November is a wonderful way to celebrate good practice and innovation within the independent care sector in Scotland. Each year we pay tribute to those who dedicate themselves to the betterment of others and the residents who live within care homes.
The Scottish Care Awards 2016 Finalists shortlist can be viewed below
www.scottishcare.org/scottish-care-news/sector-news/scottish-care-care-awards-2016-finalists
https://www.scottishcare.org/scottish-care-news/sector-news/scottish-care-care-awards-2016-finalists/
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