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Priorities for long-term care resource allocation in England: Actual allocation versus the views of Directors of Service and older citizens (2018)
Journal Article

Context: Decisions about resource allocation in long-term care are a perennial issue. The basis for deciding between different needs in prioritising allocation is contested. In England, this debate has crystallised with the advent of self-directed su... Read More about Priorities for long-term care resource allocation in England: Actual allocation versus the views of Directors of Service and older citizens.

Is late-life dependency increasing or not? A comparison of the Cognitive Function and Ageing Studies (CFAS) (2017)
Journal Article

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

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.

Informal and formal care: Substitutes or complements in care for people with dementia? Empirical evidence for 8 European countries (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Elsevier B.V. Background In order to contain public health care spending, European countries attempt to promote informal caregiving. However, such a cost reducing strategy will only be successful if informal caregiving is a substitute for form... Read More about Informal and formal care: Substitutes or complements in care for people with dementia? Empirical evidence for 8 European countries.

The cost of work-related stress to society: a systematic review (2017)
Journal Article

A systematic review of the available evidence examining the cost of work-related stress (WRS) would yield important insights into the magnitude of this social phenomenon. The objective of this review was to collate, extract, and synthesize economic e... Read More about The cost of work-related stress to society: a systematic review.

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

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.

Correction: Protocol investigating the clinical utility of an objective measure of activity and attention (QbTest) on diagnostic and treatment decision-making in children and young people with ADHD-'Assessing QbTest Utility in ADHD'(AQUA): A randomised controlled trial - December 01, 2014 (2016)
Journal Article

How Does Auditory Training Work? Joined-Up Thinking and Listening (2015)
Journal Article

Auditory training aims to compensate for degradation in the auditory signal and is offered as an intervention to help alleviate the most common complaint in people with hearing loss, understanding speech in a background noise. Yet there remain many u... Read More about How Does Auditory Training Work? Joined-Up Thinking and Listening.

Computational modeling of neurostimulation in brain diseases (2015)
Book Chapter

Neurostimulation as a therapeutic tool has been developed and used for a range of different diseases such as Parkinson's disease, epilepsy, and migraine. However, it is not known why the efficacy of the stimulation varies dramatically across patients... Read More about Computational modeling of neurostimulation in brain diseases.

Medical treatment and management of patients with dementia (2015)
Journal Article

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.

Auditory training can improve working memory, attention, and communication in adverse conditions for adults with hearing loss (2015)
Journal Article

Auditory training can improve working memory, attention, and communication in adverse conditions for adults with hearing loss (2015)
Journal Article

Auditory training (AT) helps compensate for degradation in the auditory signal. A series of three high-quality training studies are discussed, which include, (i) a randomized controlled trial (RCT) of phoneme discrimination in quiet that trained adul... Read More about Auditory training can improve working memory, attention, and communication in adverse conditions for adults with hearing loss.

Correction: Protocol investigating the clinical utility of an objective measure of activity and attention (QbTest) on diagnostic and treatment decision-making in children and young people with ADHD - 'Assessing QbTest Utility in ADHD' (AQUA): A randomised controlled trial - December 01, 2014 (2015)
Journal Article

Developing mHealth Apps with Researchers: Multi-Stakeholder Design Considerations (2014)
Book Chapter

The authors have been involved with developing a number of mHealth smartphone Apps for use in health or wellness research in collaboration with researchers, clinicians and patient groups for clinical areas including Sickle Cell Disease, Attention Def... Read More about Developing mHealth Apps with Researchers: Multi-Stakeholder Design Considerations.

Gaze patterns to child figures reflect deviant sexual preference in child sex offenders—a first glance (2014)
Journal Article

Research on non-offending heterosexual participants has indicated that men's gaze allocation reflects their sexual preference. In this exploratory pilot study we investigated whether naturalistic gaze behaviour is sensitive to deviant sexual preferen... Read More about Gaze patterns to child figures reflect deviant sexual preference in child sex offenders—a first glance.

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.

How do GPs complete fit note comments? (2013)
Journal Article

Implementation of routine outcome measurement in child and adolescent mental health services in the United Kingdom: A critical perspective (2013)
Journal Article

Transition to adult mental health services for young people with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): A qualitative analysis of their experiences (2013)
Journal Article

Background There is little research on the process of transition between child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) and adult mental health services (AMHS). More recently, there is growing recognition that Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Di... Read More about Transition to adult mental health services for young people with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): A qualitative analysis of their experiences.