All Outputs (132)

Effective health care for older people resident in care homes: the optimal study protocol for realist review (2014)
Journal Article

Background Care homes in the UK rely on general practice for access to specialist medical and nursing care as well as referral to therapists and secondary care. Service delivery to care homes is highly variable in both quantity and quality. This var... Read More about Effective health care for older people resident in care homes: the optimal study protocol for realist review.

Grouping of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (2014)
Journal Article

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.

Improving access to psychological therapies and older people: Findings from the Eastern Region (2014)
Journal Article

Quality of life tools to inform co-design in the development of assistive technologies for people with dementia and their carer (2014)
Journal Article

A number of tools exist to measure quality of life (QoL) for people with dementia (PwD). A selection of existing measures are summarised, obtained from an online literature survey, comprising of scales administered either by healthcare professionals... Read More about Quality of life tools to inform co-design in the development of assistive technologies for people with dementia and their carer.

Informal carer role in the personalization of assistive solutions connected to aspirations of people with dementia (2014)
Journal Article

The increase in the elderly population over the last thirty years with consequent increase in the number of people living with dementia (PwD) has resulted in a research focus on improving quality-of-life and well-being beyond basic needs, to address... Read More about Informal carer role in the personalization of assistive solutions connected to aspirations of people with dementia.

Depression and mood changes (2007)
Book Chapter

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.

The role of carers in evaluating mental health services for older people (1998)
Journal Article

Objectives. To examine, using the published literature and local service experience, the contributions that carers can make to the development and evaluation of specialist mental health services for the elderly. Methods. MEDLINE search for relevant p... Read More about The role of carers in evaluating mental health services for older people.

Death-coincidences or wishful thinking? The Society for Psychical Research and the 1894 Census of Hallucinations (1994)
Journal Article

The Hachinski Ischaemic Score: A reevaluation (1992)
Journal Article

The Hachinski Ischaemic Score (HIS) was first introduced in 1975 as a clinical scale intended to differentiate cases of dementia resulting from multiple strokes (multi‐infarct dementia) from those with primary degenerative dementias. Its conceptual b... Read More about The Hachinski Ischaemic Score: A reevaluation.

HIV infection, the brain and the behaviour: Major psychiatric disorder without cognitive impairment before or after the episode (1992)
Journal Article

A certain archway: Autoscopy and its companions seen in Western writing (1992)
Journal Article

Achieving Quality and Effectiveness in Dementia Using Crisis Teams (AQUEDUCT): A Study Protocol for a Randomised Controlled Trial of a Resource Kit.
Working Paper

BACKGROUND Improving care at home for people with dementia is a core policy goal in the dementia strategies of many European countries. A challenge to effective home support is the occurrence of crises in the care of people with dementia which ari... Read More about Achieving Quality and Effectiveness in Dementia Using Crisis Teams (AQUEDUCT): A Study Protocol for a Randomised Controlled Trial of a Resource Kit..