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Postdoc in Humanistic Aging Studies - University of Southern Denmark, SDU Applications are invited at the Department for the Study of Culture in the Faculty of Humanities, University of Southern Denmark in Odense for a Postdoc position in Humanistic Aging Studies to take effect from Juni 1, 2019, or as soon as possible thereafter. The post doc will be...

“Solitude is necessary to balance things out. But isolation is different. It doesn’t feel like a choice. I don’t want people to see me. There’s this shame for not having much of a life. Everyone else has full lives and families and jobs. So I keep to myself. It’s like there’s a big hole inside of me. And a lot of air. Some days it can be hard to move. Recently I became really malnourished. One morning I woke up with an intense headache, and ended up having a seizure on the floor of my apartment. I spent the next three months at a hospital in Brooklyn. They let me take my wheelchair anywhere. I could explore new floors and meet new people. If anyone needed water, or books from the library— I’d get it for them. My social worker told me that everyone liked having me there. It was the strongest sense of community I’ve ever had. I’ve been depressed since I got home. I want to go back.”

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Conference 2019 Care policy approaches are guided by priorities which decide who gets what kind of care, how much and of what quality. However, unlike in health care, the priority setting in social care is often more implicit. The Transforming Care Conference series will in 2019 put focus on how priorities are made...

Department of Global Health & Social Medicine | King’s College London The Department of Global Health & Social Medicine's aim is to confirm King's College London as a world leader in social scientific approaches to health and medicine.

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