Do you live with #dementia and identify as Black African or Caribbean?

Narin Aker is conducting research to support people with dementia and carers from minority ethnic groups, and would love to hear from you.

For more information, please email Narin Aker at [email protected].

Our paper summarising 40 years of research on caregiver burden and coping in informal carers of dependent adults and older people onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sm… reporting on our global meta-analysis of 80 studies important work led by Juan Carlos Muñoz IDEA Lab UCL UCL Brain Sciences UCL Psychiatry

This is Sarah and Gemma, Wendy’s daughters. Our mum died peacefully early this morning. She wrote a blog post before she died so you can read about it from her perspective.
Sarah and Gemma

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We are interested hearing from older adults in particular those with #dementia or family carers about their experience of virtual wards/ hospital at home - please get in touch if this is you NHS Elect 💙 Simon Conroy Alzheimer's Society For Researchers Jane Sproat Innovations in Dementia Dementia Carers Count

The next in my blog series, this time talking about the lie that is the concept of ‘winding down’ before going on leave.

Hot off the press - Co-designing our EMBED-Care Framework as an intervention to enhance Patient shared decision-making for people with #dementia and practitioners, comprising holistic assessment, linked with clinical decision support tools - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

What happens when a researcher and people with lived experience of #dementia collaborate to develop a research funding application? Our experiences now published here 👇
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(Spoiler: good things happen)
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Very important study by Narin Aker Please repost!

Are you a healthcare professional supporting people with #dementia ? UCL researchers would like to interview you about supporting people with dementia from Black African and Caribbean backgrounds and family carers. Contact Narin Aker for more info #phdresearch

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One of my student is looking for some older people or family carers who have experience of hospitals at home or virtual wards to help her with shaping her research - could you help? please get in touch if so.

Our review out now showed - Non-pharmacological interventions were effective in reducing #anxiety in people with #dementia in the community - led by Danielle Nimmons sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Claudia Jill Manthorpe ProfessorCarolynCG Jill Manthorpe Prof Irene Petersen Narin Aker Alice Burnand

I'm participating in the London Sleep Out 2024, and swapping my bed for a sleeping bag to support Centrepoint in their mission of ending youth homelessness by 2037. Please support me, if you can, and together we can end youth homelessness. Many thanks! justgiving.com/fundraising/ir…

Hot off press v.important work: co-designing an #implementation plan for #eHealth assessment & decision support for people with #dementia in care homes - journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… from our brill student Juliet Gillam Prof Catherine Evans Jamie Ross Clare Ellis-Smith Tofunmi Aworinde

Now out- Decision support for professionals in #hospitals to promote comfort among older inpatients with #dementia -some practical resources - making tacit/implicit knowledge, explicit! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… Liz Sampson Jill Manthorpe DFHampshire GretaRait Vicki Vickerstaff

Thank you for sharing Dementia UK. Please see research opportunity below 👇

I am still looking for GPs who can participate in these co-creation events to talk about common mental health discussions.🩺 The first event is next Friday 27 October and the second 17 November. You will receive a £120 reimbursement for taking part in both events.

A few months in the making... & now finally ready: The Anti-Colonial Research Library hosts 400+ open-access articles and books, websites, YouTube videos on practical examples of Indigenous and anti-colonial research methodologies. Use and share widely! anticolonialresearchlibrary.org