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Categorising interventions to enhance vaccine uptake or reduce vaccine hesitancy in the United Kingdom: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2024)
Journal Article
Kafadar, A. H., Sabatini, S., Jones, K. A., & Dening, T. (2024). Categorising interventions to enhance vaccine uptake or reduce vaccine hesitancy in the United Kingdom: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Vaccine, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2024.06.059

Background: Vaccination is one of the most important public health interventions to combat infectious disease. However, vaccine hesitancy prevents us reaching the global target of vaccine uptake (e.g., 75 % of influenza vaccination in at-risk groups)... Read More about Categorising interventions to enhance vaccine uptake or reduce vaccine hesitancy in the United Kingdom: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

An alternative theoretical approach to develop a new conception about pain in people with dementia (2024)
Journal Article
Morgner, C., Dening, K. H., Dening, T., & Gibson, B. (2024). An alternative theoretical approach to develop a new conception about pain in people with dementia. Medical Humanities, https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2023-012718

The theoretical approach presented in this paper describes a novel experimental-theoretical methodology to conceptualise pain in people with dementia. Existing procedures for assessment of pain rely on subjective self-report using pain questionnaires... Read More about An alternative theoretical approach to develop a new conception about pain in people with dementia.

Transgender and gender diverse older people: health, aging and dementia (2024)
Journal Article
Asti, E., Beale, N., Thorne, N., & Dening, T. (2024). Transgender and gender diverse older people: health, aging and dementia. International Journal of Transgender Health, https://doi.org/10.1080/26895269.2024.2355232

Background and Objectives
262,000 people in the UK identify as transgender and gender diverse (TGD), and this population is believed to be growing. As the population is aging, an increase in older TGD people accessing health and social care can be a... Read More about Transgender and gender diverse older people: health, aging and dementia.

Semi-supervised information fusion for medical image analysis: Recent progress and future perspectives (2024)
Journal Article
Weng, Y., Zhang, Y., Wang, W., & Dening, T. (2024). Semi-supervised information fusion for medical image analysis: Recent progress and future perspectives. Information Fusion, 106, Article 102263. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2024.102263

Supervised machine learning requires training on the dataset with annotation. However, fine-grained annotation is very expensive to acquire. In the medical image analysis domain, the sheer volume of data and lack of annotation limit the performance o... Read More about Semi-supervised information fusion for medical image analysis: Recent progress and future perspectives.

A comparative study of GNN and MLP based machine learning for the diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease involving data synthesis. (2023)
Journal Article
Chen, K., Weng, Y., Hosseini, A. A., Dening, T., Zuo, G., & Zhang, Y. (2024). A comparative study of GNN and MLP based machine learning for the diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease involving data synthesis. Neural Networks, 169, 442-452. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2023.10.040

Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease that commonly occurs in older people. It is characterized by both cognitive and functional impairment. However, as AD has an unclear pathological cause, it can be hard to diagnose with confidenc... Read More about A comparative study of GNN and MLP based machine learning for the diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease involving data synthesis..

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.

Living Well with Dementia: Feeling Empowered through Interaction with Their Social Environment (2023)
Journal Article
Ziebuhr, B., Zanasi, M., Bueno Aguado, Y., Losada Durán, R., Dening, T., Tournier, I., …Holthoff-Detto, V. (2023). Living Well with Dementia: Feeling Empowered through Interaction with Their Social Environment. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(12), Article 6080. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20126080

This study was designed to advance our understanding of how feelings of empowerment in people living with dementia still residing at home can be promoted. We conducted qualitative interviews with 12 participants with mild-to-moderate stages of dement... Read More about Living Well with Dementia: Feeling Empowered through Interaction with Their Social Environment.

Care for older forensic mental health patients: A consensus guidance document (2023)
Journal Article
Tomlin, J., Walker, K., Yates, J., Dening, T., Goethals, K., Völlm, B., & Griffiths, C. (2023). Care for older forensic mental health patients: A consensus guidance document. European Psychiatry, 66(1), Article e44. https://doi.org/10.1192/j.eurpsy.2023.2413

Background
It is important to investigate the needs, experiences, and outcomes of older forensic mental health inpatients. In this consensus document, we offer practitioners working with older forensic inpatients recommendations to meet the unique o... Read More about Care for older forensic mental health patients: A consensus guidance document.

Exploring factors influencing willingness of older adults to use assistive technologies: evidence from the cognitive function and ageing study II (2023)
Journal Article
Begde, A., Jain, M., Goodwin, M., Brayne, C., Barnes, L., Brooks, R., …Hogervorst, E. (2024). Exploring factors influencing willingness of older adults to use assistive technologies: evidence from the cognitive function and ageing study II. Information, Communication and Society, 27(2), 368-385. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2023.2205915

Technology is widely promoted as a solution to greater independence and better health for the rapidly growing UK older population. If this is to be realised, we need to understand barriers and facilitators to uptake and investigate who wants this tec... Read More about Exploring factors influencing willingness of older adults to use assistive technologies: evidence from the cognitive function and ageing study II.

Quality of life, wellbeing, recovery, and progress for older forensic mental health patients: a qualitative investigation based on the perspectives of patients and staff (2023)
Journal Article
Walker, K., Yates, J., Dening, T., Völlm, B., Tomlin, J., & Griffiths, C. (2023). Quality of life, wellbeing, recovery, and progress for older forensic mental health patients: a qualitative investigation based on the perspectives of patients and staff. International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being, 18(1), Article 2202978. https://doi.org/10.1080/17482631.2023.2202978

Purpose
There is a lack of research informing service requirements for older (aged≥55 years) forensic mental health patients. The aim of this research was to increase knowledge about older forensic mental health patients’ quality of life, wellbeing,... Read More about Quality of life, wellbeing, recovery, and progress for older forensic mental health patients: a qualitative investigation based on the perspectives of patients and staff.