All Outputs (11)

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.

“I always feel like I’m the first deaf person they have ever met:” Deaf Awareness, Accessibility and Communication in the United Kingdom’s National Health Service (NHS): How can we do better? (2025)
Journal Article
Parmar, B., Henshaw, H., Howe, S., Dickinson, A. M., Rolfe, C., Le Mere, P., Blondiaux-Ding, E., Musker, Z., Stevenson, R., Hughes, S. E., Calvert, S., Stapleton, E., & Turton, L. (2025). “I always feel like I’m the first deaf person they have ever met:” Deaf Awareness, Accessibility and Communication in the United Kingdom’s National Health Service (NHS): How can we do better?. PLoS ONE, 20(5), Article e0322850. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0322850

Background

Barriers to communication significantly reduce access to health services for people with deafness or hearing loss (PDHL). These barriers contribute to reduced healthcare-seeking behaviour, poorer access to health information, and advers... Read More about “I always feel like I’m the first deaf person they have ever met:” Deaf Awareness, Accessibility and Communication in the United Kingdom’s National Health Service (NHS): How can we do better?.

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.

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.

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.

1615 Recommendations for the assessment and management of co-existing dementia and hearing loss within UK audiology services (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Langdon, A., Heffernan, E., Somerset, S., Calvert, S., Broome, E., Dening, T., & Henshaw, H. (2024, May). 1615 Recommendations for the assessment and management of co-existing dementia and hearing loss within UK audiology services. Presented at British Geriatrics Society Spring Meeting 2024, Birmingham, UK

The emergence of telehealth in orthotic services across the United Kingdom (2021)
Journal Article
Eddison, N., Healy, A., Calvert, S., & Chockalingam, N. (2023). The emergence of telehealth in orthotic services across the United Kingdom. Assistive Technology: The Offical Journal of RESNA, 35(2), 163-168. https://doi.org/10.1080/10400435.2021.1995531

COVID-19 has impacted the National Health Service provision, creating urgency for departments to adapt and adopt new ways of delivering healthcare. The purpose of this service evaluation was to determine the emergence of telehealth in orthotic servic... Read More about The emergence of telehealth in orthotic services across the United Kingdom.

Cardiovascular disease risk communication in NHS Health Checks: a qualitative video-stimulated recall interview study with practitioners (2021)
Journal Article
Gidlow, C., J Ellis, N., Riley, V., Cowap, L., Crone, D., Cottrell, E., Grogan, S., Chambers, R., Calvert, S., & Clark-Carter, D. (2021). Cardiovascular disease risk communication in NHS Health Checks: a qualitative video-stimulated recall interview study with practitioners. BJGP Open, 5(5), Article 0049. https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgpo.2021.0049

Background
NHS Health Check (NHSHC) is a national programme to identify and manage cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. Practitioners delivering the programme should be competent in discussing CVD risk, but there is evidence of limited understanding... Read More about Cardiovascular disease risk communication in NHS Health Checks: a qualitative video-stimulated recall interview study with practitioners.

Normative misperceptions of unhealthy snacking amongst 11- to 12-year-old secondary school students (2021)
Journal Article
Calvert, S., C. Dempsey, R., & Povey, R. (2021). Normative misperceptions of unhealthy snacking amongst 11- to 12-year-old secondary school students. Appetite, 166, Article 105462. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2021.105462

Younger adolescents are at an age where they have increasing control of their diet, and where peers become an important social reference for acceptable and normative dietary behaviours. These normative perceptions are often inaccurate and can lead to... Read More about Normative misperceptions of unhealthy snacking amongst 11- to 12-year-old secondary school students.

Delivering in‐school interventions to improve dietary behaviours amongst 11‐ to 16‐year‐olds: A systematic review (2018)
Journal Article
Calvert, S., C. Dempsey, R., & Povey, R. (2019). Delivering in‐school interventions to improve dietary behaviours amongst 11‐ to 16‐year‐olds: A systematic review. Obesity Reviews, 20(4), 543-553. https://doi.org/10.1111/obr.12797

Childhood obesity is a global health concern, which has both short- and long-term health consequences for the individual, and is a potential burden on health care services and the wider economy. The school environment is a setting where changes can b... Read More about Delivering in‐school interventions to improve dietary behaviours amongst 11‐ to 16‐year‐olds: A systematic review.