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James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership in co-existing dementia and hearing conditions: a research agenda defined by people with lived experience and healthcare professionals (2025)
Journal Article
Heffernan, E., Calvert, S., Dening, T., Broome, E., Spriggs, R., Ahmad, N., Lerigo-Smith, N., & Henshaw, H. (2025). James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership in co-existing dementia and hearing conditions: a research agenda defined by people with lived experience and healthcare professionals. Age and Ageing, 54(7), Article afaf191. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afaf191

Background
Dementia and hearing conditions are both major public health concerns. Most people living with dementia also live with hearing conditions (e.g. hearing loss, tinnitus, vestibular disorders). Furthermore, hearing loss may be a risk factor... Read More about James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership in co-existing dementia and hearing conditions: a research agenda defined by people with lived experience and healthcare professionals.

Understanding the audiological care of patients with co-existing dementia or mild cognitive impairment and hearing loss in the United Kingdom National Health Service: A qualitative study (2025)
Journal Article
Calvert, S., Chitty, A., Langdon, A., Broome, E., Henshaw, H., Somerset, S., Dening, T., & Heffernan, E. (2025). Understanding the audiological care of patients with co-existing dementia or mild cognitive impairment and hearing loss in the United Kingdom National Health Service: A qualitative study. PLoS ONE, 26(6), Article e0327248. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0327248

Background

Hearing loss is common among people living with dementia and can exacerbate the symptoms associated with dementia. The effective management of hearing loss can positively impact quality of life and help alleviate dementia-related sympto... Read More about Understanding the audiological care of patients with co-existing dementia or mild cognitive impairment and hearing loss in the United Kingdom National Health Service: A qualitative study.

Specialist clinical pathways in audiology services for adults living with coexisting hearing loss and dementia: a scoping review protocol (2024)
Journal Article
Wenje, S. M., Calvert, S., Henshaw, H., Spriggs, R. V., Dening, T., Hendron, E., & Heffernan, E. (2024). Specialist clinical pathways in audiology services for adults living with coexisting hearing loss and dementia: a scoping review protocol. BMJ Open, 14(12), Article e087418. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2024-087418

Introduction Both hearing loss and dementia are associated with ageing, and it is thought that many individuals living with dementia also live with hearing loss. Despite the large comorbidity between these two disorders, there remains a clear lack of... Read More about Specialist clinical pathways in audiology services for adults living with coexisting hearing loss and dementia: a scoping review protocol.

Dementia and the Deaf community: prevalence, assessment and management in people with hearing loss since childhood (2024)
Journal Article
Flower, I., Heffernan, E., & Dening, T. (2025). Dementia and the Deaf community: prevalence, assessment and management in people with hearing loss since childhood. Aging and Mental Health, 29(5), 757-766. https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2024.2430533

Objectives: Deaf people face complex challenges in accessing healthcare, particularly for age-related conditions, yet the Deaf community is largely overlooked in dementia research. This study explores healthcare issues in relation to dementia for old... Read More about Dementia and the Deaf community: prevalence, assessment and management in people with hearing loss since childhood.

Supporting early‐career dementia researchers: Identifying support needs and ways forward via a European study (2023)
Journal Article
Dupont, C., Gilissen, J., Dassen, F. C. M., Branco, R. M., Heins, P., Heffernan, E., & Bartels, S. L. (2024). Supporting early‐career dementia researchers: Identifying support needs and ways forward via a European study. Alzheimer's & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association, 20(2), 1321-1333. https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.13530

INTRODUCTION
Early-career researchers contribute significantly to dementia research and clinical practice. However, a growing group of early-career dementia researchers (ECDRs) lack appropriate support throughout their careers. Thus, we aim to (i) e... Read More about Supporting early‐career dementia researchers: Identifying support needs and ways forward via a European study.

When Hearing Loss Co-occurs with Dementia: Challenges and Opportunities in Diagnosis and Management (2023)
Book Chapter
Broome, E., Burgon, C., Heffernan, E., Dening, T., Calvert, S., Rajasingam, S., & Henshaw, H. (2023). When Hearing Loss Co-occurs with Dementia: Challenges and Opportunities in Diagnosis and Management. In A. Ciorba, & S. Hatzopoulos (Eds.), Updates on Hearing Loss and its Rehabilitation (1-27). InTech. https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.1003179

Both dementia and hearing loss are highly prevalent in older adults and often coexist, increasing the complexity of diagnosis and management of both conditions. As the population ages, an increasing number of people will experience both long-term con... Read More about When Hearing Loss Co-occurs with Dementia: Challenges and Opportunities in Diagnosis and Management.

Tools and methods for evaluating the change to health service delivery due to pandemics or other similar emergencies: A rapid evidence review. (2023)
Journal Article
Keegan, D., Heffernan, E., Clarke, B., Deasy, C., O'Donnell, C., Crowley, P., Hughes, A., Murphy, A. W., & Masterson, S. (2024). Tools and methods for evaluating the change to health service delivery due to pandemics or other similar emergencies: A rapid evidence review. Evaluation and Program Planning, 102, Article 102378. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2023.102378

The novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2 and its associated disease COVID-19, were declared a pandemic in March 2020. Countries developed rapid response activities within their health services to prevent spread of the virus and protect their populations. Ev... Read More about Tools and methods for evaluating the change to health service delivery due to pandemics or other similar emergencies: A rapid evidence review..

New horizons in hearing conditions (2023)
Journal Article
Henshaw, H., Calvert, S., Heffernan, E., Broome, E. E., Fackrell, K., Dening, T., & Burgon, C. (2023). New horizons in hearing conditions. Age and Ageing, 52(8), Article afad150. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afad150

Hearing conditions such as hearing loss, tinnitus and hyperacusis are highly prevalent in the population and can severely impact communication and quality of life. Hearing is affected by multiple factors, including heredity, noise exposure, age, sex,... Read More about New horizons in hearing conditions.