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Physical activity engagement strategies in people with dementia – a focus group study (2019)
Journal Article
Harwood, R. H., van der Wardt, V., Hancox, J., Pollock, K., Logan, P., Vedhara, K., & Harwood, R. (2020). Physical activity engagement strategies in people with dementia – a focus group study. Aging and Mental Health, 24(8), 1326-1333. https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2019.1590308

Objective: This focus group study aimed to explore how to motivate people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or dementia and their carers to engage in exercise and physical activity.

Methods: Four focus groups were conducted with six people with... Read More about Physical activity engagement strategies in people with dementia – a focus group study.

A loaded self-managed exercise programme for patellofemoral pain: a mixed methods feasibility study (2019)
Journal Article
Smith, B. E., Hendrick, P., Bateman, M., Moffatt, F., Skovdal Rathleff, M., Selfe, J., …Logan, P. (2019). A loaded self-managed exercise programme for patellofemoral pain: a mixed methods feasibility study. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 20, Article 129. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12891-019-2516-1

Background:
A novel loaded self-managed exercise programme that includes pain education and self-management strategies may result in better outcomes for people with patellofemoral pain (PFP). However, establishing program feasibility is an essential... Read More about A loaded self-managed exercise programme for patellofemoral pain: a mixed methods feasibility study.

Developing the React to Falls resources to support care home staff in managing falls (2019)
Journal Article
Robinson, K. R., Jones, K., Balmbra, J., Robertson, K., Horne, J., & Logan, P. A. (2019). Developing the React to Falls resources to support care home staff in managing falls. Journal of Frailty, Sarcopenia and Falls, 4(1), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.22540/JFSF-04-001

Objectives: Care home residents are falling three times more often than elderly frail people living in their own homes and as such, the management of falls is an important area for care home staff to consider. This paper outlines the development of t... Read More about Developing the React to Falls resources to support care home staff in managing falls.

Systematic scoping review of frameworks used to develop rehabilitation interventions for older adults (2019)
Journal Article
Booth, V., Hood-Moore, V., Hancox, J. E., Logan, P., & Robinson, K. R. (2019). Systematic scoping review of frameworks used to develop rehabilitation interventions for older adults. BMJ Open, 9(2), Article e024185. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-024185

Objectives: Rehabilitation interventions for older adults are complex as they involve a number of interacting components, have multiple outcomes of interest and are influenced by a number of contextual factors. The importance of rigorous intervention... Read More about Systematic scoping review of frameworks used to develop rehabilitation interventions for older adults.

Anaesthetist-controlled versus patient-maintained effect-site targeted propofol sedation during elective primary lower-limb arthroplasty performed under spinal anaesthesia (ACCEPTS): study protocol for a parallel-group randomised comparison trial (2019)
Journal Article
Hewson, D. W., Worcester, F., Sprinks, J., Smith, M. D., Buchanan, H., Breedon, P., …Bedforth, N. M. (2019). Anaesthetist-controlled versus patient-maintained effect-site targeted propofol sedation during elective primary lower-limb arthroplasty performed under spinal anaesthesia (ACCEPTS): study protocol for a parallel-group randomised comparison trial. Trials, 20(1), Article 129. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-019-3228-4

Background
The clinical efficacy of effect-site targeted patient-maintained propofol sedation (PMPS) compared to anaesthetist-controlled propofol sedation (ACPS) for patients undergoing awake joint replacement surgery is currently unknown. There is... Read More about Anaesthetist-controlled versus patient-maintained effect-site targeted propofol sedation during elective primary lower-limb arthroplasty performed under spinal anaesthesia (ACCEPTS): study protocol for a parallel-group randomised comparison trial.

Growing research in geriatric medicine (2019)
Journal Article
Yarnall, A., Walker, R., Tullo, E., Todd, O., Steves, C. J., Shenkin, S. D., …Extended Working Group from the NIHR Newcastle Biomedical Research Centre Meeting. (2019). Growing research in geriatric medicine. Age and Ageing, 48(3), 316-319. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afy220

© 2019 The Author(s). Academic geriatric medicine activity lags behind the scale of clinical activity in the specialty. A meeting of UK academic geriatricians was convened in March 2018 to consider causes and solutions to this problem. The meeting hi... Read More about Growing research in geriatric medicine.

Measuring health related quality of life of care home residents: comparison of self-report with staff proxy responses (2019)
Journal Article
Usman, A., Lewis, S., Hinsliff-Smith, K., Long, A., Housley, G., Jordan, J., …Gordon, A. L. (2019). Measuring health related quality of life of care home residents: comparison of self-report with staff proxy responses. Age and Ageing, 48(3), 407–413. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afy191

Introduction: Care home residents are often unable to complete Health Related Quality of Life questionnaires for themselves because of prevalent cognitive impairment. This study compared care home resident and staff proxy responses for two measures,... Read More about Measuring health related quality of life of care home residents: comparison of self-report with staff proxy responses.

Ageing in forensic psychiatric secure settings: the views of members of staff (2018)
Journal Article
Di Lorito, C., Dening, T., & Völlm, B. (2019). Ageing in forensic psychiatric secure settings: the views of members of staff. Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology, 30(2), 270-285. https://doi.org/10.1080/14789949.2018.1542449

Background: Although the prevalence of older patients in forensic psychiatric services is increasing, research around service provision for this population is very limited. We aimed to gather the views of members of staff on how well secure services... Read More about Ageing in forensic psychiatric secure settings: the views of members of staff.

Getting back to life after stroke: co-designing a peer-led coaching intervention to enable stroke survivors to rebuild a meaningful life after stroke (2018)
Journal Article
Masteron-Algar, P., Williams, S., Burton, C. R., Arthur, C., Hoare, Z., Morrison, V., …Elghenzai, S. (2018). Getting back to life after stroke: co-designing a peer-led coaching intervention to enable stroke survivors to rebuild a meaningful life after stroke. Disability and Rehabilitation, https://doi.org/10.1080/09638288.2018.1524521

Purpose
Rebuilding one’s life after stroke is a key priority persistently identified by patients yet professionally led interventions have little impact. This co-design study constructs and tests a novel peer-led coaching intervention to improve pos... Read More about Getting back to life after stroke: co-designing a peer-led coaching intervention to enable stroke survivors to rebuild a meaningful life after stroke.

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.

Action Plan for Stroke in Europe 2018–2030 (2018)
Journal Article
Norrving, B., Barrick, J., Davalos, A., Dichgans, M., Cordonnier, C., Guekht, A., …Caso, V. (2018). Action Plan for Stroke in Europe 2018–2030. European Stroke Journal, 3(4), 309-336. https://doi.org/10.1177/2396987318808719

Two previous pan-European consensus meetings, the 1995 and 2006 Helsingborg meetings, were convened to review the scientific evidence and the state of current services to identify priorities for research and development and to set targets for the dev... Read More about Action Plan for Stroke in Europe 2018–2030.

Effect of care assistant communication style on communicative behaviours of residents with dementia: a systematic multiple case-study (2018)
Journal Article
Stanyon, M., Griffiths, A., Gordon, A., & Thomas, S. (2019). Effect of care assistant communication style on communicative behaviours of residents with dementia: a systematic multiple case-study. Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences, 33(1), 207-214. https://doi.org/10.1111/scs.12622

Objectives: To determine whether varying the communication style of care assistants, encouraging them to use direct instructions and allowing more time for residents’ responses, influenced the communicative behaviour of care home residents living wit... Read More about Effect of care assistant communication style on communicative behaviours of residents with dementia: a systematic multiple case-study.

How does parental social mobility during childhood affect socioeconomic status over the life course? (2018)
Journal Article
Byrne, A., Chandola, T., & Shlomo, N. (2018). How does parental social mobility during childhood affect socioeconomic status over the life course?. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 58, 69-79. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rssm.2018.10.003

The gap in occupational earnings between children from parents of higher versus lower socioeconomic background widens over the life course. This gap can be at least partly explained by family background characteristics in childhood but the extent to... Read More about How does parental social mobility during childhood affect socioeconomic status over the life course?.

Addendum to the Acknowledgements: How Online Communities of People With Long-Term Conditions Function and Evolve: Network Analysis of the Structure and Dynamics of the Asthma UK and British Lung Foundation Online Communities (2018)
Journal Article
Joglekar, S., Sastry, N., Coulson, N. S., Taylor, S. J., Patel, A., Duschinsky, R., …De Simoni, A. (2018). Addendum to the Acknowledgements: How Online Communities of People With Long-Term Conditions Function and Evolve: Network Analysis of the Structure and Dynamics of the Asthma UK and British Lung Foundation Online Communities. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 20(9), e11564. https://doi.org/10.2196/11564

The authors of “How Online Communities of People With Long-Term Conditions Function and Evolve: Network Analysis of the Structure and Dynamics of the Asthma UK and British Lung Foundation Online Communities” (J Med Internet Res 2018;20(7):e238) wish... Read More about Addendum to the Acknowledgements: How Online Communities of People With Long-Term Conditions Function and Evolve: Network Analysis of the Structure and Dynamics of the Asthma UK and British Lung Foundation Online Communities.

Measuring health related quality of life of care home residents, comparison of self-report with staff proxy responses for EQ-5D-5L and HowRu: protocol for assessing proxy reliability in care home outcome testing (2018)
Journal Article
Usman, A., Lewis, S., Hinsliff-Smith, K., Long, A., Housley, G., Jordan, J., Gage, H., Dening, T., Gladman, J. R., & Gordon, A. L. (2018). Measuring health related quality of life of care home residents, comparison of self-report with staff proxy responses for EQ-5D-5L and HowRu: protocol for assessing proxy reliability in care home outcome testing. BMJ Open, 8(8), 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022127

Introduction
Research into interventions to improve health and wellbeing for older people living in care homes is increasingly common. Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) is frequently used as an outcome measure but collecting both self-reported... Read More about Measuring health related quality of life of care home residents, comparison of self-report with staff proxy responses for EQ-5D-5L and HowRu: protocol for assessing proxy reliability in care home outcome testing.

Do individual versus illness belief schema differ in the prediction of post-stroke recovery? (2018)
Journal Article
Aujla, N., Walker, M., Sprigg, N., & Vedhara, K. (2020). Do individual versus illness belief schema differ in the prediction of post-stroke recovery?. Journal of Health Psychology, 25(13-14), 2118-2128. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105318785446

This longitudinal observational study examined how individual versus illness belief schema compare as predictors of post-stroke recovery. Forty-two stroke survivors (mean age=66.9 years/range=29-96 years; 68% male), were involved. The primary outcome... Read More about Do individual versus illness belief schema differ in the prediction of post-stroke recovery?.

Addendum to the Acknowledgements: How Online Communities of People With Long-Term Conditions Function and Evolve: Network Analysis of the Structure and Dynamics of the Asthma UK and British Lung Foundation Online Communities (Preprint) (2018)
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Joglekar, S., Sastry, N., Coulson, N. S., Taylor, S. J., Patel, A., Duschinsky, R., …De Simoni, A. (2018). Addendum to the Acknowledgements: How Online Communities of People With Long-Term Conditions Function and Evolve: Network Analysis of the Structure and Dynamics of the Asthma UK and British Lung Foundation Online Communities (Preprint)