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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.

Care staff and the creative arts: exploring the context of involving care personnel in arts interventions (2017)
Journal Article
Broome, E., Dening, T., Schneider, J. M., & Brooker, D. (in press). Care staff and the creative arts: exploring the context of involving care personnel in arts interventions. International Psychogeriatrics, 29(12), https://doi.org/10.1017/S1041610217001478

Methods: We examined the involvement of care staff in creative arts activities in residential care. Aspects of involvement which appear to influence outcomes in people with dementia were identified and analysed. A broad systematic literature sear... Read More about Care staff and the creative arts: exploring the context of involving care personnel in arts interventions.

The individual experience of ageing prisoners: systematic review and meta-synthesis through a Good Lives Model framework (2017)
Journal Article
Di Lorito, C., Völlm, B., & Dening, T. (2018). The individual experience of ageing prisoners: systematic review and meta-synthesis through a Good Lives Model framework. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 33(2), 252-262. https://doi.org/10.1002/gps.4762

Objective: The existing literature on ageing prisoners tends to focus on such aspects as diagnosis and physical ill-health. In contrast, the experience of imprisonment from the perspective of ageing prisoners has received less attention. Grounded in... Read More about The individual experience of ageing prisoners: systematic review and meta-synthesis through a Good Lives Model framework.

The individual experience of ageing patients and the current service provision in the context of Italian forensic psychiatry: a case-study (2017)
Journal Article
Di Lorito, C., Castelletti, L., Tripi, G., Gandellini, M. G., Dening, T., & Völlm, B. (in press). The individual experience of ageing patients and the current service provision in the context of Italian forensic psychiatry: a case-study. Journal of Forensic Nursing, 13(3), https://doi.org/10.1097/JFN.0000000000000163

Introduction. Following the recent development of residential units for the execution of security measures (REMS) managed by the National Health Service and the closing down of forensic psychiatric hospitals, no study has been conducted to investigat... Read More about The individual experience of ageing patients and the current service provision in the context of Italian forensic psychiatry: a case-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.

Psychiatric disorders among older prisoners: a systematic review and comparison study against older people in the community (2017)
Journal Article
Di Lorito, C., Völlm, B., & Dening, T. (in press). Psychiatric disorders among older prisoners: a systematic review and comparison study against older people in the community. Aging and Mental Health, 22(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2017.1286453

Objectives: Despite emerging evidence that older prisoners experience poor mental health, literature in this area is still limited. In the present systematic review and meta-analysis, we report on the prevalence of psychiatric disorders among older p... Read More about Psychiatric disorders among older prisoners: a systematic review and comparison study against older people in the community.

Technologies to support community-dwelling persons with dementia: a position paper on issues regarding development, usability, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness, deployment, and ethics (2017)
Journal Article
Meiland, F., Innes, A., Mountain, G., Robinson, L., Roest, H. V. D., García-Casal, J. A., …Franco-Martin, M. (2017). Technologies to support community-dwelling persons with dementia: a position paper on issues regarding development, usability, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness, deployment, and ethics. JMIR Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies, 4(1), Article e1. https://doi.org/10.2196/rehab.6376

Background: With the expected increase in the numbers of persons with dementia, providing timely, adequate, and affordable care and support is challenging. Assistive and health technologies may be a valuable contribution in dementia care, but new cha... Read More about Technologies to support community-dwelling persons with dementia: a position paper on issues regarding development, usability, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness, deployment, and ethics.

New horizons: the management of hypertension in people with dementia (2016)
Journal Article
Harrison, J. K., Van Der Wardt, V., Conroy, S. P., Stott, D. J., Dening, T., Gordon, A. L., …Gladman, J. R. (2016). New horizons: the management of hypertension in people with dementia. Age and Ageing, 45(6), 740-746. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afw155

The optimal management of hypertension in people with dementia is uncertain. This review explores if people with dementia experience greater adverse effects from antihypertensive medications, if cognitive function is protected or worsened by controll... Read More about New horizons: the management of hypertension in people with dementia.

"Here everyone is the same" - a qualitative evaluation of participating in a Boccia (indoor bowling) group: innovative practice (2016)
Journal Article
Ovenden, I., Dening, T., & Beer, C. (in press). "Here everyone is the same" - a qualitative evaluation of participating in a Boccia (indoor bowling) group: innovative practice. Dementia, https://doi.org/10.1177/1471301216675988

This qualitative study explored the impact of a Boccia (modified indoor bowls) group on the lives of people with dementia and their carers. Semi-structured interviews with people with dementia (N=6), carers (N=10) and the group organisers (N=6) analy... Read More about "Here everyone is the same" - a qualitative evaluation of participating in a Boccia (indoor bowling) group: innovative practice.

Effective health care for older people living and dying in care homes: a realist review (2016)
Journal Article
Goodman, C., Dening, T., Gordon, A. L., Davies, S. L., Meyer, J., Martin, F. C., …Zubair, M. (in press). Effective health care for older people living and dying in care homes: a realist review. BMC Health Services Research, 16(269), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-016-1493-4

Background: Care home residents in England have variable access to health care services. There is currently no coherent policy or consensus about the best arrangements to meet these needs. The purpose of this review was to explore the evidence for ho... Read More about Effective health care for older people living and dying in care homes: a realist review.

Where is the happiness in dementia? (2016)
Journal Article
Petty, S., Dening, T., Griffiths, A., & Coleston-Shields, D. M. (2016). Where is the happiness in dementia?. International Psychogeriatrics, 28(10), https://doi.org/10.1017/S1041610216000879

Our current research aims to explore how the emotional experiences of individuals with dementia are understood, and to improve the design and delivery of care interventions. A preliminary, incidental, finding from our initial systematic literature se... Read More about Where is the happiness in dementia?.

Palliative care in dementia: does it work? (2016)
Journal Article
Dening, T., & Dening, K. H. (2016). Palliative care in dementia: does it work?. Maturitas, 83, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.maturitas.2015.10.006

The topic of palliative care in dementia has attracted increasing interest in recent years. Entering palliative+care+dementia into PubMed yields only 10 papers before 1990, the first from 1982. In contrast, there have been 100 or so papers in each of... Read More about Palliative care in dementia: does it work?.

Nursing home placement in the Donepezil and Memantine in Moderate to Severe Alzheimer's Disease (DOMINO-AD) trial: secondary and post-hoc analyses (2015)
Journal Article
Howard, R., Dening, T., McShane, R., Lindesay, J., Ritchie, C., Baldwin, A., …Phillips, P. P. (2015). Nursing home placement in the Donepezil and Memantine in Moderate to Severe Alzheimer's Disease (DOMINO-AD) trial: secondary and post-hoc analyses. Lancet Neurology, 14(12), 1171-1181. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1474-4422%2815%2900258-6

Provision of NHS generalist and specialist services to care homes in England: review of surveys (2015)
Journal Article
Iliffe, S., Davies, S. L., Gordon, A. L., Schneider, J., Dening, T., Bowman, C., …Goodman, C. (2016). Provision of NHS generalist and specialist services to care homes in England: review of surveys. Primary Health Care Research and Development, 17(2), 122-137. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1463423615000250

Background: The number of beds in care homes (with and without nurses) in the United Kingdom is three times greater than the number of beds in National Health Service (NHS) hospitals. Care homes are predominantly owned by a range of commercial, not-f... Read More about Provision of NHS generalist and specialist services to care homes in England: review of surveys.

Quality of life tools to inform co-design in the development of assistive technologies for people with dementia and their carer (2014)
Journal Article
Craven, M. P., De Filippis, M. L., & Dening, T. (2014). Quality of life tools to inform co-design in the development of assistive technologies for people with dementia and their carer. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 8868, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13105-4_57

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
De Filippis, M. L., Craven, M. P., & Dening, T. (2014). Informal carer role in the personalization of assistive solutions connected to aspirations of people with dementia. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 8868, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13105-4_35

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.

Achieving Quality and Effectiveness in Dementia Using Crisis Teams (AQUEDUCT): A Study Protocol for a Randomised Controlled Trial of a Resource Kit.
Working Paper
Coleston-Shields, D. M., Challis, D., Worden, A., Broome, E., Dening, T., Guo, B., …Orrell, M. Achieving Quality and Effectiveness in Dementia Using Crisis Teams (AQUEDUCT): A Study Protocol for a Randomised Controlled Trial of a Resource Kit

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..