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2012 to be the European Year for Active Ageing
Fibre-optic implant could monitor wounds for infection
Fibre-optic implants could be used to monitor healing wounds for signs of infection if research by Aston University scientists is successful.
A team of researchers plans to study how to turn fibre-optic technology that can measure temperature and detect biological signs of disease into a device for implanting into a wound at surgery.
Doctors currently tend to check for infection by monitoring a patient’s temperature, but catching the problem before it has had a chance to affect the whole body could stop it becoming more serious.
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Dementia Talking: Care, conversation and communication
Care for people with dementia and their families is a growing social challenge. As the number of older people increases so too does the number of people living with this distressing disease. The ‘Dementia Talking’ project focuses on communication as this aspect of dementia care is a significant problem for people with dementia and their carers. The aim is to understand how talk about and to people with dementia is constructed, with the goal of improving communication with people with dementia. Dementia is a challenging group of conditions often linked to decline, decay and deficiency. In contrast, this research has a positive focus on care, conversation and communication. This is a qualitative project using conversation and discourse analysis to investigate audio/video recordings of everyday dementia talk, interviews with carers and media representations of dementia. An extensive network of dementia organisations will be used to disseminate the findings, and a carer’s guide to communication will ensure the programme has an impact on the lives of carers and people with dementia.
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