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This post summarises the route we travelled in the PRIDE Study (PRomoting Independence in people with DEmentia) from a sentence in a grant proposal to working with 8 people with dementia as co-researchers undertaking data analysis.
Social support at home is key to enabling people with dementia to continue to live independently and in deferring or avoiding their transition to long term care. Since the launch of the NHS and Community Care Act in 1990, and its promotion of car
As a first year PhD student at the University of Nottingham, I initially became interested in researching dementia when I was exploring topics for my Masters dissertation.
The poor quality of home care services is never far from the headlines these days.
In my second year of medical school at the University of Nottingham, I was set the task of researching an aspect of clinical communication skills that interested me.
“How can we take the pressure off health and social care?” This was the question posed to a panel of professionals by the Lunar 21 discussion group on April 3rd, 2017.
Over the last month I had the fantastic opportunity to assist with all three of Bev Foster’s ‘Music in Dementia Care’ workshops.
I have launched a new blog site about rural dementia.
We believe passionately in the power of daily activities and diversions for people living with dementia.
Health care assistants and social care support workers play a central role in front line care provision. For not only are they are usually the first point of contact for those in receipt of care, they also deliver around twice as much of this car