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Realist Evaluation Comparison of Dementia-Friendly Communities in England and the Netherlands (2024)
Journal Article
Chadborn, N. H., Thijssen, M., Logan, P., Radford, K., & Graff, M. (2024). Realist Evaluation Comparison of Dementia-Friendly Communities in England and the Netherlands. Health and Social Care in the Community, 2024, Article 5576029. https://doi.org/10.1155/2024/5576029

Introduction. Dementia-friendly communities coordinate activities and events which offer social inclusion and participation of people with dementia. Initiatives can include memory cafés, sports, and tourist and heritage visits. This study explored ho... Read More about Realist Evaluation Comparison of Dementia-Friendly Communities in England and the Netherlands.

Older adult forensic mental health patients’ views on barriers, facilitators and ‘what works’ to enable better quality of life, health and wellbeing and to reduce risk of reoffending and harm to self and others (2022)
Working Paper
Walker, K., Yates, J., Dening, T., Vollm, B., Tomlin, J., & Griffiths, C. Older adult forensic mental health patients’ views on barriers, facilitators and ‘what works’ to enable better quality of life, health and wellbeing and to reduce risk of reoffending and harm to self and others

Introduction Research evidence that can inform service provision and treatment requirements for older (aged 55 years and above) forensic mental health patients is lacking, particularly that which is based on patients’ own preferences and experience... Read More about Older adult forensic mental health patients’ views on barriers, facilitators and ‘what works’ to enable better quality of life, health and wellbeing and to reduce risk of reoffending and harm to self and others.

MeMa: Designing the Memory Machine (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Price, D., Jacobs, R., Darzentas, D., Perez Vallejos, E., Chadborn, N., Martindale, S., & Urquhart, L. (2019). MeMa: Designing the Memory Machine. In Companion Publication of the 2019 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2019 Companion (271--276). https://doi.org/10.1145/3301019.3323882

The Memory Machine is an ambitious project that aims to develop a device to capture people's memories to create a blend of personal and factual data that builds identities, and contextualizes personal recollections. The Memory Machine has been guided... Read More about MeMa: Designing the Memory Machine.

Citizens’ juries: when older adults deliberate on the benefits and risks of smart health and smart homes (2019)
Journal Article
Chadborn, N., Blair, K., Creswick, H., Perez Vallejos, E., Hughes, N., Dowthwaite, L., & Adenekan, O. (2019). Citizens’ juries: when older adults deliberate on the benefits and risks of smart health and smart homes. Healthcare, 7(2), Article 54. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare7020054

Background: Technology-enabled healthcare or smart health has provided a wealth of products and services to enable older people to monitor and manage their own health conditions at home, thereby maintaining independence, whilst also reducing healthca... Read More about Citizens’ juries: when older adults deliberate on the benefits and risks of smart health and smart homes.

Quality improvement collaborative aiming for Proactive HEAlthcare of Older People in Care Homes (PEACH): a realist evaluation protocol (2018)
Journal Article
Devi, R., Meyer, J., Banerjee, J., Goodman, C., Gladman, J. R., Dening, T., …Gordon, A. L. (2018). Quality improvement collaborative aiming for Proactive HEAlthcare of Older People in Care Homes (PEACH): a realist evaluation protocol. BMJ Open, 8(11), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023287

Introduction: This protocol describes a study of a Quality Improvement Collaborative (QIC) to support implementation and delivery of Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) in UK care homes. The QIC will be formed of health and social care professio... Read More about Quality improvement collaborative aiming for Proactive HEAlthcare of Older People in Care Homes (PEACH): a realist evaluation protocol.

Using comprehensive geriatric assessment for quality improvements in healthcare of older people in UK care homes: protocol for realist review within Proactive Healthcare of Older People in Care Homes (PEACH) study (2017)
Journal Article
Zubair, M., Chadborn, N., Gladman, J. R., Dening, T., Gordon, A. L., & Goodman, C. (2017). Using comprehensive geriatric assessment for quality improvements in healthcare of older people in UK care homes: protocol for realist review within Proactive Healthcare of Older People in Care Homes (PEACH) study. BMJ Open, 7(10), Article e017270. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017-017270

Introduction Care home residents are relatively high users of healthcare resources and may have complex needs. Comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) may benefit care home residents and improve efficiency of care delivery. This is an approach t... Read More about Using comprehensive geriatric assessment for quality improvements in healthcare of older people in UK care homes: protocol for realist review within Proactive Healthcare of Older People in Care Homes (PEACH) study.

“Our biggest killer”: multimodal discourse representations of dementia in the British press (2017)
Journal Article
Brookes, G., Harvey, K., Chadborn, N., & Dening, T. (2018). “Our biggest killer”: multimodal discourse representations of dementia in the British press. Social Semiotics, 28(3), 371-395. https://doi.org/10.1080/10350330.2017.1345111

A recent (2016) Office for National Statistics report stated that dementia is now “the leading cause of death” in England and Wales. Ever fixated with the syndrome (an unfailingly newsworthy topic), the British press was quick to respond to the bulle... Read More about “Our biggest killer”: multimodal discourse representations of dementia in the British press.