• Ep.30 Meet Joy Milne: The woman who can sniff out Parkinson's, Alzheimer's & cancer
    Oct 26 2022

    Host 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.   
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    25 mins
  • Ep. 29 Kari Gerstheimer, Access Social Care CEO reveals how some battles for care are so 'harrowing' lawyers need counselling
    Aug 10 2022

    Host 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.


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    26 mins
  • Ep. 28 Comedian Pope Lonergan talks about his new book 'I'll Die After Bingo' and his life as a care home worker
    Jun 14 2022

    Host 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.

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    37 mins
  • Ep. 27 Dr Jane Townson, CEO of the Homecare Association talks about infection control fund, overseas recruitment and cost of living crisis
    Apr 27 2022

    Host 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.

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    59 mins
  • Ep.26 Long Covid left us bedbound for a year say Antony Loveless and Claire Hooper
    Mar 29 2022

    Host 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. 

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    29 mins
  • Ep. 25 Amanda Woodvine, CEO of Vegetarian for Life talks about respecting beliefs of vegetarians and vegans in care homes
    Feb 28 2022

    Host 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

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    30 mins
  • Ep.24 Vic Rayner, CEO of the National Care Forum talks about care staff shortages, the need for pay increase and mandatory vaccine
    Nov 30 2021

    Host 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.

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    38 mins
  • Ep.23 Camille Leavold, Abbots Care director talks about mandatory vaccines and the recruitment crisis
    Oct 21 2021

    Host 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.

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    38 mins