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Patient perceptions of cognitive screening in adult audiology services: A qualitative exploration (2023)
Journal Article
Broome, E. E., Tannirandorn, P., Straus, J., Beale, P., Heffernan, E., Dening, T., & Henshaw, H. (2023). Patient perceptions of cognitive screening in adult audiology services: A qualitative exploration. Frontiers in Neurology, 14, Article 1143128. https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2023.1143128

Introduction: Both hearing loss and dementia are extremely pervasive, especially amongst older adults. As hearing loss and dementia have common symptoms, misdiagnosis can be common, and failure to address hearing loss for people with dementia could a... Read More about Patient perceptions of cognitive screening in adult audiology services: A qualitative exploration.

An Investigation of the Wishes, Needs, Opportunities and Challenges of Accessing Meaningful Activities for People Living with Mild to Moderate Dementia (2023)
Journal Article
Tournier, I., Orton, L., Dening, T., Ahmed, A., Holthoff-Detto, V., & Niedderer, K. (2023). An Investigation of the Wishes, Needs, Opportunities and Challenges of Accessing Meaningful Activities for People Living with Mild to Moderate Dementia. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(7), Article 5358. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20075358

Many people are keen to be actively involved in social life and activities, but even at an early stage, dementia can have a negative impact on social participation and access to leisure activities. As part of the IDoService project, this study has in... Read More about An Investigation of the Wishes, Needs, Opportunities and Challenges of Accessing Meaningful Activities for People Living with Mild to Moderate Dementia.

Systems and Processes that Enable Progress for Older Forensic Mental Health Patients (2022)
Journal Article
Walker, K., Furtado, V., Yates, J., Dening, T., Völlm, B., & Griffiths, C. (2023). Systems and Processes that Enable Progress for Older Forensic Mental Health Patients. International Journal of Forensic Mental Health, 22(2), 93-104. https://doi.org/10.1080/14999013.2022.2080304

Older forensic mental health patients have complex needs and requirements; service provision is required to address mental health, offending risk and issues associated with aging (geriatric care). This study aimed to identify the systems and processe... Read More about Systems and Processes that Enable Progress for Older Forensic Mental Health Patients.

Sustaining interventions in care homes initiated by quality improvement projects: a qualitative study (2022)
Journal Article
Devi, R., Martin, G. P., Banerjee, J., Gladman, J. R., Dening, T., Barat, A., & Gordon, A. L. (2022). Sustaining interventions in care homes initiated by quality improvement projects: a qualitative study. BMJ Quality and Safety, 32(11), 665-675. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjqs-2021-014345

Introduction: Inadequate and varied quality of care in care homes has led to a proliferation of quality improvement (QI) projects. This study examined the sustainability of interventions initiated by such projects. Method: This qualitative study expl... Read More about Sustaining interventions in care homes initiated by quality improvement projects: a qualitative study.

The experience of apathy in dementia: A qualitative study (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Baber, W., Chang, C. Y. M., Yates, J., & Dening, T. The experience of apathy in dementia: A qualitative study

Background
The presence of apathy is associated with less favourable outcomes in dementia, including more rapid functional and cognitive decline, greater disease severity and increased mortality. We aimed to explore and gain an understanding into ho... Read More about The experience of apathy in dementia: A qualitative study.

Patterns of pain killers and other opioid use in patients admitted to a detoxification and dual diagnosis unit, 2016-2019: A retrospective cohort study (2021)
Journal Article
Casado-Espada, N. M., Alvarez-Navares, A., Lozano-Lopez, M. T., Gamonal-Limcaoco, R. S., de la Iglesia-Larrad, J., Garzón, M. Á., Dening, T., & Roncero, C. (2021). Patterns of pain killers and other opioid use in patients admitted to a detoxification and dual diagnosis unit, 2016-2019: A retrospective cohort study. Heroin Addiction And Related Clinical Problems, 23(3), 37-44

Background: Increasing opioid consumption in recent years has given rise to compelling significant concerns. Fentanyl, heroin, new psychoactive substances and prescribed opioids have been named as the main substances involved in the ‘opioid epidemic’... Read More about Patterns of pain killers and other opioid use in patients admitted to a detoxification and dual diagnosis unit, 2016-2019: A retrospective cohort study.

Understanding the causes, symptoms and effects of young-onset dementia (2020)
Journal Article
Ray, M., & Dening, T. (2021). Understanding the causes, symptoms and effects of young-onset dementia. Nursing Standard, 36(1), 43-50. https://doi.org/10.7748/ns.2020.e11620

Young-onset dementia refers to dementia that develops before the age of 65 years. It can present with a wide variety of symptoms including cognitive, behavioural, neurological and systemic symptoms, which reflects the wide range of possible causes. Y... Read More about Understanding the causes, symptoms and effects of young-onset dementia.

Mild Cognitive Impairment: The Manchester consensus (2020)
Journal Article
Dunne, R. A., Aarsland, D., O'Brien, J. T., Ballard, C., Banerjee, S., Fox, N. C., Isaacs, J. D., Underwood, B. R., Perry, R. J., Chan, D., Dening, T., Thomas, A. J., Schryer, J., Jones, A. M., Evans, A. R., Alessi, C., Coulthard, E. J., Pickett, J., Elton, P., Jones, R. W., …Burns, A. (2021). Mild Cognitive Impairment: The Manchester consensus. Age and Ageing, 50(1), 72-80. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afaa228

Given considerable variation in diagnostic and therapeutic practice, there is a need for national guidance on the use of neuroimaging, fluid biomarkers, cognitive testing, follow-up and diagnostic terminology in Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI). MCI i... Read More about Mild Cognitive Impairment: The Manchester consensus.

Anticholinergic Drug Exposure and the Risk of Dementia: A Nested Case-Control Study (2019)
Journal Article
Coupland, C. A., Hill, T., Dening, T., Morriss, R., Moore, M., & Hippisley-Cox, J. (2019). Anticholinergic Drug Exposure and the Risk of Dementia: A Nested Case-Control Study. JAMA Internal Medicine, 179(8), 1084-1093. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamainternmed.2019.0677

IMPORTANCE Anticholinergic medicines have short-term cognitive adverse effects, but it
is uncertain whether long-term use of these drugs is associated with an increased risk of dementia.

OBJECTIVE To assess associations between anticholinergic dr... Read More about Anticholinergic Drug Exposure and the Risk of Dementia: A Nested Case-Control Study.

Giving permission to care for people with dementia in residential homes: Learning from a realist synthesis of hearing-related communication (2019)
Journal Article
Crosbie, B., Ferguson, M., Wong, G., Walker, D. M., Vanhegan, S., & Dening, T. (2019). Giving permission to care for people with dementia in residential homes: Learning from a realist synthesis of hearing-related communication. BMC Medicine, 17(1), Article 54. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-019-1286-9

Background: Managing hearing communication for residents living with hearing loss and dementia in long-term care settings is challenging. This paper explores how care can be effective in optimising hearing communication for residents living with deme... Read More about Giving permission to care for people with dementia in residential homes: Learning from a realist synthesis of hearing-related communication.

Is late-life dependency increasing or not? A comparison of the Cognitive Function and Ageing Studies (CFAS) (2017)
Journal Article
Kingston, A., Wohland, P., Wittenberg, R., Robinson, L., Brayne, C., Matthews, F. E., Jagger, C., Green, E., Gao, L., Barnes, R., Arthur, A., Baldwin, C., Barnes, L. E., Comas-Herrera, A., Dening, T., Forster, G., Harrison, S., Ince, P. G., McKeith, I. G., Parry, B., …Weller, R. (2017). Is late-life dependency increasing or not? A comparison of the Cognitive Function and Ageing Studies (CFAS). Lancet, 390(10103), 1676-1684. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736%2817%2931575-1

Background Little is known about how the proportions of dependency states have changed between generational cohorts of older people. We aimed to estimate years lived in different dependency states at age 65 years in 1991 and 2011, and new projections... Read More about Is late-life dependency increasing or not? A comparison of the Cognitive Function and Ageing Studies (CFAS).

Feasibility of a staff training and support programme to improve pain assessment and management in people with dementia living in care homes (2017)
Journal Article
Petyaeva, A., Kajander, M., Lawrence, V., Clifton, L., Thomas, A. J., Ballard, C., Leroi, I., Briggs, M., Closs, J., Dening, T., Nunez, K. M., Testad, I., Romeo, R., Johar, I., & Corbett, A. (2018). Feasibility of a staff training and support programme to improve pain assessment and management in people with dementia living in care homes. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 33(1), 221-231. https://doi.org/10.1002/gps.4727

Objectives: The objective of this study was to establish the feasibility and initial effectiveness of training and support intervention for care staff to improve pain management in people with dementia living in care homes (PAIN-Dem). Methods: PAIN-D... Read More about Feasibility of a staff training and support programme to improve pain assessment and management in people with dementia living in care homes.

Longitudinal course of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia: systematic review (2016)
Journal Article
van der Linde, R. M., Dening, T., Stephan, B. C., Prina, A. M., Evans, E., & Brayne, C. (2016). Longitudinal course of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia: systematic review. British Journal of Psychiatry, 209(5), 366-377. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.bp.114.148403

Background
More information about the pattern of Behavioural and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia (BPSD) in the course of dementia is needed to inform patients and clinicians and to design future interventions.

Aims
To determine the persiste... Read More about Longitudinal course of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia: systematic review.

Who lives where and does it matter? Changes in the health profiles of older people living in long term care and the community over two decades in a high income country (2016)
Journal Article
Matthews, F. E., Bennett, H., Wittenberg, R., Jagger, C., Dening, T., & Brayne, C. (2016). Who lives where and does it matter? Changes in the health profiles of older people living in long term care and the community over two decades in a high income country. PLoS ONE, 11(9), Article e0161705. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0161705

Background: There have been fundamental shifts in the attitude towards, access to and nature of long term care in high income countries. The proportion and profile of the older population living in such settings varies according to social, cultural,... Read More about Who lives where and does it matter? Changes in the health profiles of older people living in long term care and the community over two decades in a high income country.

Medical treatment and management of patients with dementia (2015)
Journal Article
Dening, T., & Babu Sandilyan, M. (2015). Medical treatment and management of patients with dementia. Nursing Standard, 29(45), 43-49. https://doi.org/10.7748/ns.29.45.43.e9424

This article, the fifth in a series on dementia, discusses the principles of management and treatment of people with dementia. It describes how to proceed after a diagnosis of dementia has been made in the early stages of the condition, and general m... Read More about Medical treatment and management of patients with dementia.

Grouping of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (2014)
Journal Article
Van Der Linde, R. M., Dening, T., Matthews, F. E., & Brayne, C. (2014). Grouping of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 29(6), 562-568. https://doi.org/10.1002/gps.4037

Objective A wide range of behavioural and psychological symptoms (BPSD) are common in dementia, and it has been suggested that groups of correlated symptoms should be studied together. Here, we describe the groups of BPSD that have been identified in... Read More about Grouping of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia.

Depression and mood changes (2007)
Book Chapter
Cullum, S., Tucker, S., & Dening, T. R. (2007). Depression and mood changes. In M. Rees, & L. Keith (Eds.), Medical Problems in Women over 70: When Normative Treatment Plans do not Apply (77-92). Taylor & Francis

Depression is the most common mental health problem experienced by older women. Although everyone may feel sad or lonely at times, depressive illness in later life is qualitatively and quantitatively different. True depression is a serious and disabl... Read More about Depression and mood changes.