Enhancing Care for Older People Webinar Series: Healthy Homes Programme

19/12/2024 1:30 pm to 19/12/2024 3:00 pm

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Enhancing Care for Older People Webinar Series

We are excited to announce our 33rd EnCOP education webinar in our series linked to the Enhanced Care for Older People Competency Framework (EnCOP)

Title: Healthy Homes Programme

Date: Thursday 19th December 2024

1.30pm-3.00pm

     Speakers:

  • Mary Fairfield, Public Health Practitioner, South Tyneside Council
  • Philip Hodgson, Assistant Professor in Health Research, Northumbria University

 

Biographies:

Mary Fairfield

My name is Mary Fairfield. I am one of the Public Health Practitioners in South Tyneside, my focus area is ‘place and the wider determinants of health’. I originally trained as a nurse in Leicestershire. After a spell as a sister in Accident and Emergency in the Southeast, I am becoming a Resuscitation Training Officer in the West Midlands. This was followed by a move to Public Health, which at that time was part of a Joint Policy Unit between Adult Social Care and the Primary Care Trust. Because of national changes in 2011, I TUPE transferred a team of staff to a social enterprise with charity status to deliver local authority commissioned Integrated Lifestyle Services. Firstly, in Sandwell then Walsall, both of which are towns in the Black County in the West Midlands. More recently I took the opportunity to return to Public Health in South Tyneside when I relocating to the Northeast.

Current Public Health Work Includes:    Healthy Homes/Fuel Poverty, Age Friendly Communities, Transport Needs Assessment, Development of HIA Guidance.

 

Philip Hodgson

Philip Hodgson is a social scientist with an interest in healthy ageing, particularly the link between homes and health as we age.  He has been part of teams that have carried out a range of related research, including on topics such as home adaptations, hydration practices in care homes, advice services and technology supporting healthy ageing.  He is co-lead for the Better Life in Later Life research group at Northumbria University, and the Healthy Ageing research cluster for Fuse (centre for translational research in public health). He recently completed the mixed methods evaluation of the Healthy Homes service alongside colleagues at Northumbria University.

 

This session is FREE and open to all!

Spaces can be booked via [email protected]