Britain’s much-debated social care crisis is usually framed in terms of what we don’t have enough of: staff, funding, capacity.
But in a picturesque village in the UK’s North Yorkshire moors there is a small community taking a radically different approach. Here, learning-disabled residents live side-by-side with their carers all year round.
For three months, Thomas Moore, the writer of our latest Insights long read, lived in one of the community’s 19 houses, sharing meals and taking part in community life. Moore writes: “I found myself wondering whether social care would be in such a state if we were more willing to question our assumptions about what good care is supposed to look like in the first place.”
Do you take vitamin supplements? If you do, you will want to read this article from a professor of medical education explaining why you should think about timing your dose around meals, drinks and other medicines.
Finally, we take a look at the situation in Gaza and examine why the peace deal keeps collapsing.
