Social care | ARC South London

About our social care research

Adult social care covers social work, personal care and practical support for adults with a physical disability, a learning disability, or physical or mental illness, as well as support for their carers. All ARCs are required by the NIHR to focus on social care as part of their applied health research, so that healthcare research is not carried out in isolation.

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Core research project — 4 May 2020

Setting and responding to priorities

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Core research project — 4 May 2020

Mapping and community engagement (MACE)

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Adopted Project — 23 Nov 2021

Social care personal assistants in a ‘post Covid’ era

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Adopted Project — 12 Oct 2021

Investigating how the James Lind Alliance review on adult social work has impacted social work research

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Adopted Project — 23 Mar 2021

How has the Coronavirus Act 2020 affected changes to England’s Care Act 2014 and changes to social care?

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Adopted Project — 23 Mar 2021

The hidden keyworkers – investigating the experiences of ancillary staff in care homes during Covid-19

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Adopted Project — 22 Mar 2021

Employing personal assistants during the Covid-19 pandemic: lessons for social care practice

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Adopted Project — 21 Jan 2021

Protecting older people living in care homes from Covid-19: challenges and solutions to implementing social distancing and isolation

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Adopted Project — 20 Jan 2021

Strengthening adult safeguarding responses to homelessness and self-neglect

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Adopted Project — 19 Nov 2020

Social care responses to self-neglect and hoarding among older people: what works in practice?

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Adopted Project — 27 May 2020

Taking a break - use of residential respite by people with dementia and carers

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