All Outputs (29)

Homecare workers needs and experiences in end of life care: rapid review (2024)
Journal Article
Forward, C., Bayley, Z., Walker, L., Krygier, J., White, C., Mwaba, K., Elliott-Button, H., Taylor, P., & Johnson, M. J. (in press). Homecare workers needs and experiences in end of life care: rapid review. BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, https://doi.org/10.1136/spcare-2023-004737

Background Social homecare workers provide essential care to those living at home at the end of life. In the context of a service experiencing difficulties in attracting and retaining staff, we have limited knowledge about the training, support needs... Read More about Homecare workers needs and experiences in end of life care: rapid review.

Erratum: Correction: Supported: Supporting, enabling, and sustaining homecare workers to deliver end-of-life care: A qualitative study protocol (PloS one (2023) 18 12 (e0291525)) (2024)
Journal Article
Bayley, Z., Bothma, J., Bravington, A., Forward, C., Hussain, J., Manthorpe, J., Pearson, M., Roberts, H., Taylor, P., Walker, L., White, C., Wray, J., & Johnson, M. J. (2024). Erratum: Correction: Supported: Supporting, enabling, and sustaining homecare workers to deliver end-of-life care: A qualitative study protocol (PloS one (2023) 18 12 (e0291525)). PLoS ONE, 19(2), Article e0298925. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0298925

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0291525.].

“Just because people are old, just because they're ill…” dignity matters in district nursing (2021)
Journal Article
Stevens, E., Price, L., & Walker, L. (2022). “Just because people are old, just because they're ill…” dignity matters in district nursing. The journal of adult protection, 24(1), 3-14. https://doi.org/10.1108/JAP-07-2021-0024

Purpose: This paper aims to explore the concept and practice, of dignity as understood and experienced by older adults and district nursing staff. The paper adds a new, nuanced, understanding of safeguarding possibilities in the context of district n... Read More about “Just because people are old, just because they're ill…” dignity matters in district nursing.

Dressings and dignity in community nursing (2021)
Journal Article
Stevens, E., Price, E., & Walker, L. (2021). Dressings and dignity in community nursing. British Journal of Community Nursing, 26(11), 526-531. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjcn.2021.26.11.526

Although dignity has been widely explored in the context of healthcare, it has rarely been the subject of empirical exploration when care is delivered by community district nursing teams. This paper demonstrates how a commonplace community nursing ta... Read More about Dressings and dignity in community nursing.

Making the mundane remarkable: an ethnography of the ‘dignity encounter’ in community district nursing (2021)
Journal Article
Stevens, E., Price, E., & Walker, E. (in press). Making the mundane remarkable: an ethnography of the ‘dignity encounter’ in community district nursing. Ageing and Society, https://doi.org/10.1017/s0144686x21000738

The concept of dignity is core to community district nursing practice, yet it is profoundly complex with multiple meanings and interpretations. Dignity does not exist absolutely, but, rather, becomes socially (de)constructed through and within social... Read More about Making the mundane remarkable: an ethnography of the ‘dignity encounter’ in community district nursing.

Group-based Tai Chi as therapy for alleviating experiences of social death in people with advanced, incurable disease: an ethnographic study (2021)
Journal Article
Bradshaw, A., Walker, L., Borgstrom, E., & Burke, S. M. (2022). Group-based Tai Chi as therapy for alleviating experiences of social death in people with advanced, incurable disease: an ethnographic study. Qualitative research in sport, exercise and health, 14(1), 84-100. https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676X.2021.1879918

Advanced, incurable disease is a highly stressful and traumatic life event that can lead to losses of social identity, social connectedness, and losses associated with bodily disintegration. The combination of these losses makes it difficult to remai... Read More about Group-based Tai Chi as therapy for alleviating experiences of social death in people with advanced, incurable disease: an ethnographic study.

‘When I asked for help and support it was not there’: current NHS employment practice and its impact on people with systemic lupus erythematosus (2021)
Journal Article
Booth, S., Price, E., & Walker, E. (2021). ‘When I asked for help and support it was not there’: current NHS employment practice and its impact on people with systemic lupus erythematosus. Rheumatology Advances in Practice, 5(1), Article rkab019. https://doi.org/10.1093/rap/rkab019

Objectives
The aim was to investigate whether National Health Service (NHS) employees with SLE, for whom work disability and early retirement are high, are supported effectively in at work.
Methods
An online survey of 393 people with lupus was com... Read More about ‘When I asked for help and support it was not there’: current NHS employment practice and its impact on people with systemic lupus erythematosus.

Is polygyny a risk factor in the transmission of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa? A systematic review (2020)
Journal Article
Gazimbi, M. M., Magadi, M. A., Onyango-Ouma, W., Walker, E., Cresswell, R. B., Kaseje, M., & Wafula, C. O. (2020). Is polygyny a risk factor in the transmission of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa? A systematic review. African journal of reproductive health, 24(4), 198-212. https://doi.org/10.29063/ajrh2020/v24i4.20

Using a systematic literature review approach, this paper focused on the role of polygyny in the spread of HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries. The widespread practice of polygyny is one feature of many SSA contexts that may be relevant to... Read More about Is polygyny a risk factor in the transmission of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa? A systematic review.

'It was like an animal in pain': Institutional thoughtlessness and bereavement in prison (2020)
Journal Article
Wilson, M., Johnston, H., & Walker, L. (in press). 'It was like an animal in pain': Institutional thoughtlessness and bereavement in prison. Criminology & criminal Justice, https://doi.org/10.1177/1748895820930755

Using the concept of institutional thoughtlessness, this article examines a range of issues embedded within daily prison life which have a detrimental effect upon the lives of those bereaved during a prison sentence. Drawing on in-depth qualitative r... Read More about 'It was like an animal in pain': Institutional thoughtlessness and bereavement in prison.

Feeling the benefit : fluctuating illness and the world of welfare (2019)
Journal Article
Price, E., Walker, L., & Booth, S. (2020). Feeling the benefit : fluctuating illness and the world of welfare. Disability and society, 35(8), 1315-1336. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2019.1680346

This article explores the experiences of people living with fluctuating long-term conditions, with a particular focus on the UK welfare benefits system. Respondents in this study suggested that this system constitutes a critical barrier to maintainin... Read More about Feeling the benefit : fluctuating illness and the world of welfare.

Society, Health and Disease in South Africa (2019)
Book
Gilbert, L., Walker, L., Cooper, S., Lewins, K., Matshedisho, R., Nunez-Carrasco, L., & Selikow, T.-A. (2019). Society, Health and Disease in South Africa. (4th). Wits University Press

The onset of the quadruple burden of disease in South Africa, the challenges faced by the medical establishment to curtail the rapid growth of multiple epidemics, the inadequate response by the state to various inequities in the health system, and th... Read More about Society, Health and Disease in South Africa.

Fluctuation, invisibility, fatigue – the barriers to maintaining employment with systemic lupus erythematosus: results of an online survey (2018)
Journal Article
Walker, E., Price, E., & Booth, S. (2018). Fluctuation, invisibility, fatigue – the barriers to maintaining employment with systemic lupus erythematosus: results of an online survey. Lupus, 27(14), 2284-2291. https://doi.org/10.1177/0961203318808593

© The Author(s) 2018. Objectives: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is associated with high levels of workplace disability and unemployment. The objective of this study was to understand the reasons for this and to describe the barriers and facilita... Read More about Fluctuation, invisibility, fatigue – the barriers to maintaining employment with systemic lupus erythematosus: results of an online survey.

‘There’s no pill to help you deal with the guilt and shame’: Contemporary experiences of HIV in the United Kingdom (2017)
Journal Article
Walker, L. (2019). ‘There’s no pill to help you deal with the guilt and shame’: Contemporary experiences of HIV in the United Kingdom. Health, 23(1), 97-113. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363459317739436

© The Author(s) 2017. The experience of living with HIV, in the global north, has changed significantly over the past 20 years. This is largely the result of effective biomedical methods of treatment and prevention. HIV is now widely considered to be... Read More about ‘There’s no pill to help you deal with the guilt and shame’: Contemporary experiences of HIV in the United Kingdom.

Problematising the discourse of 'Post-AIDS' (2017)
Journal Article
Walker, L. (in press). Problematising the discourse of 'Post-AIDS'. Journal of Medical Humanities, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10912-017-9433-9

This paper reflects on the meanings of ‘post-AIDS’ in the Global North and Global South. I bring together a range of contemporary arguments to suggest that the notion of ‘post-AIDS’ is, at best, misplaced, not least because its starting point remains... Read More about Problematising the discourse of 'Post-AIDS'.

Chronic illness, vulnerability and social work: Autoimmunity in the contemporary disease experience (2015)
Book
Price, L., & Walker, L. (2015). Chronic illness, vulnerability and social work: Autoimmunity in the contemporary disease experience. Routledge

Whilst the body has recently assumed greater sociological significance, there has been less engagement in social work and social care on the bodily experience of health, illness and disease. This innovative volume redresses the balance by exploring c... Read More about Chronic illness, vulnerability and social work: Autoimmunity in the contemporary disease experience.

'My biggest fear was that people would reject me once they knew my status...': Stigma as experienced by patients in an HIV/AIDS clinic in Johannesburg, South Africa (2010)
Journal Article
Gilbert, L., & Walker, L. (2010). 'My biggest fear was that people would reject me once they knew my status...': Stigma as experienced by patients in an HIV/AIDS clinic in Johannesburg, South Africa. Health and Social Care in the Community, 18(2), 139-146. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2524.2009.00881.x

Stigma is not a new concept; however, it remains highly significant in the context of HIV/AIDS in South Africa. There is wide consensus that HIV/AIDS-related stigma compromises the well-being of people living with the disease. This paper is part of a... Read More about 'My biggest fear was that people would reject me once they knew my status...': Stigma as experienced by patients in an HIV/AIDS clinic in Johannesburg, South Africa.

'His mam, my dad, my girlfriend, loads of people used to bring him up': the value of social support for (ex) offender fathers (2010)
Journal Article
Walker, L. (2010). 'His mam, my dad, my girlfriend, loads of people used to bring him up': the value of social support for (ex) offender fathers. Child & family social work, 15(2), 238-247. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2206.2009.00664.x

This research analyses key findings from qualitative research conducted with (ex) offender fathers and their probation officers. This paper focuses on the critical role of family and social support for (ex) offender fathers who seek to build and main... Read More about 'His mam, my dad, my girlfriend, loads of people used to bring him up': the value of social support for (ex) offender fathers.

Society, Health and Disease in a Time of HIV/AIDS (2010)
Book
Gilbert, L., Selikow, T., & Walker, L. (2010). Society, Health and Disease in a Time of HIV/AIDS. (3rd). Pan Macmillan

"They (ARVs) are my life, without them I'm nothing" - experiences of patients attending a HIV/AIDS clinic in Johannesburg, South Africa (2009)
Journal Article
Gilbert, L., & Walker, L. (2009). "They (ARVs) are my life, without them I'm nothing" - experiences of patients attending a HIV/AIDS clinic in Johannesburg, South Africa. Health and Place, 15(4), 1123-1129. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2009.06.006

This paper is a part of a larger study that explores the "social complexity" of antiretroviral therapy (ART), in resource-limited environments. Drawing on in-depth interviews with a sample of 44 patients in an urban HIV/AIDS clinic in Johannesburg, S... Read More about "They (ARVs) are my life, without them I'm nothing" - experiences of patients attending a HIV/AIDS clinic in Johannesburg, South Africa.

'My son gave birth to me': offending fathers - generative, reflexive and risky? (2009)
Journal Article
Walker, L. (2010). 'My son gave birth to me': offending fathers - generative, reflexive and risky?. The British journal of social work, 40(5), 1402-1418. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcp063

This paper analyses key findings from narrative interviews with 16 (ex) offender fathers. All fathers interviewed served custodial sentences, ranging from 6 months to 14 years, and were on licence at the time of interview. This research focuses on th... Read More about 'My son gave birth to me': offending fathers - generative, reflexive and risky?.