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Feeling safe, feeling connected: aesthetic and polyvagal approaches to dementia care Open
This perspective brings together authors from care aesthetics, dementia studies, mental health nursing, and clinical psychology to explore how aesthetics and Polyvagal Theory intersect in dementia care. Across these fields, there is growin…
Healthcare Support Workers Working With People With Dementia on Mental Health Wards: A Practice Model Informed by Care Aesthetics Open
This study explores the practice of healthcare support workers (HCSWs) working with people with dementia on mental health wards for older people within the National Health Service in the United Kingdom. People with dementia in these settin…
Does MRI Play An Essential Role In Screening For Cognitive Impairment Within A Population Of Community-Dwelling Older Adults? Open
Background Practice varies as to whether MRI is included as part of workup in older adults referred for assessment of cognitive impairment. Guidelines are unclear as to when imaging is indicated. Access to MRI can be challenging, especiall…
“We Do This Together”: A Reflective Analysis on Collaborative Research With People With Dementia Open
In recent years, there has been a growing focus on incorporating the perspectives and experiences of people with dementia in research. However, collaborative research that engages with their everyday lives remains limited, and there is lit…
‘I do Things that I don’t Really Want to do …’: Understanding the Everyday Lives of Family Carers of People With Dementia Open
In the Netherlands, where this study was conducted, there are around 800,000 family carers of people with dementia. Research into the needs and priorities of people with dementia and their family carers is crucial for developing tailored c…
Meaningful Moments of Connection: How People Affected by Dementia and Their Carers Living at Home Understand, Interpret and Experience Everyday Aesthetics Open
Objectives This study considers how people affected by dementia living in their own homes understand and interpret everyday aesthetics and what relevance this holds in their everyday lives. Methods Nine households, comprising ten family ca…
Through their eyes: informal carers’ experiences of supporting a person with dementia on an NHS mental health inpatient ward Open
In the UK, when people with dementia are regarded as a risk to themselves or others, they are usually admitted compulsorily onto a National Health Service dementia inpatient ward, under the 1983 Mental Health Act. Remarkably little is know…
View article: Music in Mind Training: Producing a theory of change model to evaluate the implementation of an improvisation-based music-making training programme for care home staff working with people with dementia
Music in Mind Training: Producing a theory of change model to evaluate the implementation of an improvisation-based music-making training programme for care home staff working with people with dementia Open
Background In the UK, care home staff are often involved in musical practices as part of their professional activities. However, to date there is a lack of relational evidence that underpins improvisational music-making programmes in care …
Exploring the everyday care practices of healthcare support workers when working with people with dementia admitted to National Health Service hospital wards in the United Kingdom: a qualitative systematic review of the literature Open
Our themes are consistent with the literature exploring HCSW practice generally, including the challenges, skills and dedication to their craft demonstrated by this staff group. However, the nature of working with patients with dementia wi…
‘It opens up a whole new world for everybody’: how carers of people with dementia view the online empowered conversations communication course Open
Carers reported positive experiences of participating in Empowered Conversations and valued meeting people who, despite different circumstances, shared their understanding of supporting someone with dementia. The course supported participa…
Creating and Reliving the Moment: Using Musical Improvisation and Care Aesthetics as a Lens of Connection and Self-Expression for Younger People Living with Dementia Open
Musical improvisation is a generative process of spontaneously creating music ‘in the moment’. For people with young onset dementia, musical improvisation provides an extended opportunity for creative self-expression and connection to one’…
‘Only my family can help’: the lived experience and care aesthetics of being resident on an NHS psychiatric/mental health inpatient dementia assessment ward – a single case study Open
In the United Kingdom, people living with dementia admitted to National Health Service (NHS) psychiatric/mental health inpatient dementia assessment wards (dementia assessment wards) are nearly always compulsorily detained under a section …
What matters in everyday life for people living with dementia: a qualitative inquiry Open
Background Research on what matters to people with dementia in their everyday lives is crucial to develop tailored interventions and programs. However, they are rarely asked. A scoping review of studies with the perspective of people with …
“I am the only one I know of who participates in research”: Promoting Equitable Research Methods for Underserved Communities in Dementia Risk Reduction Research Open
Background It is widely understood that dementia researchers need to do more to foster diversity and equitable access to research participation for underserved groups (e.g. members of racialised communities, those living in low socioeconom…
View article: ‘<i>I can see what's going on without being nosey…</i>’: What matters to people living with dementia about home as revealed through visual home tours
‘<i>I can see what's going on without being nosey…</i>’: What matters to people living with dementia about home as revealed through visual home tours Open
Objectives This paper considers home from the perspective of people living with dementia supporting ongoing discourse around ageing in place and the significance of creating more inclusive communities. Methods Forty‐six home tour interview…
Complexity and practice on NHS mental health in-patient dementia assessment wards Open
Purpose This study aims to address this need. In the UK, people with dementia admitted to National Health Service mental health in-patient dementia assessment wards [dementia assessment wards] present as complex and experience a number of …
What matters most: Exploring the everyday lives of people with dementia Open
Objectives Research on what matters most to people with dementia is crucial for developing tailored interventions and support. This study explored how people with dementia experience their everyday lives, providing insight into what is imp…
Protocol of a feasibility randomised controlled trial of Empowered Conversations: training family carers to enhance their relationships and communication with people living with dementia. Open
Background: Communication difficulties can cause frustration, low mood, and stress for people living with dementia and their carer. Carers should be offered training on adapting their communication skills. However, it is not common for ski…
Retrospective study of more than 5 million emergency admissions to hospitals in England: Epidemiology and outcomes for people with dementia Open
Introduction People living with dementia (PwD) admitted in emergency to an acute hospital may be at higher risk of inappropriate care and poorer outcomes including longer hospitalisations and higher risk of emergency re-admission or death.…
‘Ways of being’ in the domestic garden for people living with dementia: doing, sensing and playing Open
Domestic gardens represent a site for enacting embodied identity and social relationships in later life, and negotiating tensions between continuity and change. In the context of dementia, domestic gardens have significant implications for…
Introducing the ‘3 Fs model of complexity’ for people with dementia accessing a NHS mental health inpatient dementia assessment ward: An interpretive description study Open
Background In the United Kingdom, the use of the terms ‘complex’ and ‘complexity’ alongside dementia is reflected in a number of policy and practice documents. However, there is a lack of evidence that explores how complexity is perceived,…
View article: Taking time: The temporal politics of dementia, care and support in the neighbourhood
Taking time: The temporal politics of dementia, care and support in the neighbourhood Open
Dementia is a global health challenge and currently the focus of a coordinated international response articulated through the notion of ‘dementia‐friendly communities and initiatives’ (DFCIs). Yet, while increasing research attention has b…
Retrospective study of more than 5 million emergency hospital admissions: epidemiology and outcomes for people with dementia Open
BackgroundPeople with dementia (PwD) as emergency acute hospital admissions may be at higher risk of inappropriate care and poorer outcomes including longer hospitalisations and higher risk of emergency re-admission or death. Since 2009, n…
View article: Exploring the contribution of housing adaptations in supporting everyday life for people with dementia: a scoping review
Exploring the contribution of housing adaptations in supporting everyday life for people with dementia: a scoping review Open
The primary aim of this scoping review was to explore the contribution of housing adaptations to supporting everyday life for people with dementia living at home in the community. The study adopted a scoping review methodology which was gu…
New horizons and new opportunities for qualitative research to understand and improve mental health in later life Open
The International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry has built a strong reputation for publishing high-quality qualitative research in geriatric psychiatry that has helped us to understand the perspectives and experiences of older people, the…
Neighbourhoods and dementia: An updated realist review of the qualitative literature to inform contemporary practice and policy understanding Open
This realist review of the literature provided a contemporary understanding of neighbourhoods and dementia and described how people living with dementia and their neighbourhood interacted via ongoing place-making and remaking processes. Dr…
Developing a Management Guide (the DemPower App) for Couples Where One Partner Has Dementia: Nonrandomized Feasibility Study Open
Background Promoting the health and well-being of couples where one partner has dementia is an overlooked area of care practice. Most postdiagnostic services currently lack a couple-centered approach and have a limited focus on the couple …
In the moment with music: an exploration of the embodied and sensory experiences of people living with dementia during improvised music-making Open
The term ‘in the moment’ has received growing interest in the context of music programmes for people living with dementia, with music therapists, family carers, health-care professionals and people living with dementia themselves reporting…
View article: Beyond the shrinking world: dementia, localisation and neighbourhood
Beyond the shrinking world: dementia, localisation and neighbourhood Open
‘Dementia-friendly communities’ herald a shift toward the neighbourhood as a locus for the care and support of people with dementia, sparking growing interest in the geographies of dementia care and raising questions over the shifting spat…