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Copyright
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The authors
Joanna Lenham
Joanna joined SCIE as a Practice Development Manager in 2006, and has worked on a variety of projects supporting workforce development and adult social care. She is currently involved in developing resources to support the care home sector. She is a qualified Social Worker, with a particular interest in the care and support of older people. Her work experience includes 10 years in Local Authority social work as both a Care Manager and Team Manager. She has also worked with adults with mental health problems and learning disabilities in supportive housing.
Catherine Ross
Catherine Ross is the deputy editor of the Journal of Dementia Care, and also works with a range of social care organisations as a freelance writer and editor. From 1995 to 2003, Catherine worked as a community-based social worker with adults and older people in a number of London boroughs, including a year in a specialist post working with people with young onset dementia. Prior to this she worked as a sessional music worker in a nursing home for six years.
Nadira Sharif
Nadira joined SCIE in 2004 as a Research Analyst with a special interest in older people's issues. She has 15 years experience working in the voluntary sector with older people, in particular black and minority ethnic elders, and their carers. Her work ranged from providing welfare advice to supporting people to access health and social care provision as well as setting up services within the community. She was also responsible for managing and conducting research involving older people. At SCIE Nadira has co-authored both the systematic map report on BME elders and depression and the hospital discharge booklet for older people and commissioned work on BME older people.
2. Instructional design and overall project management
Dominic King, SCIE's e-learning project manager
3. Technical development
CIMEX (www.cimex.com) is a London-based media company that specialises, amongst other things, in the development of e-learning products. This project is the fifth that the company has worked on with SCIE – the others being 'Law and Social Work', 'An Introduction to the Mental Health of Older People', 'Poverty, Parenting and Social Exclusion' and 'Communication skills'. These resources can be viewed at: www.scie.org.uk.
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