Enrico De Luca
University of Birmingham
Enrico De Luca
Enrico has extensive professional experience in nursing practice and education within both pre-registration and post-graduate academic settings. He has worked in various NHS environments in Italy and the UK, specializing in critical care nursing.
After earning his doctorate in social psychology and educational research, he advanced his career in research and education, contributing to the universities of Parma and Novara in Italy, and more recently, Exeter University.
Enrico has researched and published findings on several topics, including the impact of touch interactions in caregiving, interprofessional education and care, palliative and end-of-life care, and the role of spirituality in care. He strongly believes in the value of interdisciplinary, international, and multi-method research, which has led him to participate in international projects in the USA, Thailand, and Ghana.
FURTHER INFORMATION
| Countries | Italy; United Kingdom (England); |
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| Topics | Access to care; Ageing in place; Care Homes; Care inequalities; Care innovations; Care justice; Care management; Care needs poverty and deprivation; Care trajectories; Care work and migration; Community-based LTC; Demand for Long-Term Care; Dementia care and support; End-of-life care and LTC; Ethics and care; Exercise and healthy ageing; Gender and care; Intergenerational approaches; International Day of Care and Support; Living alone; Loneliness among older people; Neurodegenerative conditions; New models of care; Pain management in care homes; Person-centered care; Primary Health Care; Quality of care; Social Innovation in LTC; Stigma and discrimination; Unmet needs; Workforce capability; |
| Methods | Case studies; Co-production methods; Creative research methods; Critical Discourse Analysis; Dyadic analysis; Ethnography; Feasibility studies; Focus groups; Grounded Theory; Implementation science; Mixed methods; Participatory research methods; Practice-based approaches; Qualitative studies; Quasi-experimental methods; Questionnaire; Research diaries; Research ethics; Scoping reviews; Systematic Review; Thematic analysis; Training materials; Vignettes and narratives; |
| Role | Research; |
| Interest Groups | Ageing and Place; Care home markets and regulation; Climate Change and LTC; Community-based approaches to dementia care; Continence Care in Long-Term Care; Data Science; Innovation in Long-Term Care; Integrated Long-Term Care; Pain in Care Homes; Qualitative Research; Quality improvement in Long-Term Care; Quasi-experimental methods; Social Care Reform in England; Strengthening Responses to Dementia; Unmet need inequalities and care poverty (UNICAP); Workforce Capacity and Capability; Working Conditions and Wages in Long-Term Care; |
| Website | https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/clinical-sciences/de-luca-enrico |
| ORC.ID | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1516-3198 |
| GOOGLE SCHOLAR | https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Enrico-De-Luca-2?ev=hdr_xprf |
| Research interests | Currently, his research interests focus on the care of older adults and LGBTQ+ aging, specifically on improving social care settings for the workforce and enhancing the quality of life for older individuals living with dementia. |
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