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Care Coordination for Older People in the Non-Statutory Sector: Activities, Time Use and Costs (2020)
Journal Article
Hughes, J., Jasper, R., Worden, A., Loynes, N., Sutcliffe, C., Abendstern, M., & Challis, D. (2020). Care Coordination for Older People in the Non-Statutory Sector: Activities, Time Use and Costs. Journal of Long-Term Care, 2020, 91-107. https://doi.org/10.31389/jltc.10

Context: Care coordination is one important mechanism to provide effective care at home for frail older people in a world with ageing populations. In England this has usually been undertaken by state funded local authority social care services. The C... Read More about Care Coordination for Older People in the Non-Statutory Sector: Activities, Time Use and Costs.

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.

Care management in long-term care of older people (2018)
Book Chapter
Challis, D. (2018). Care management in long-term care of older people. . Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351153560-17

This chapter examines the evolution of care management in services for older people as one of the fundamental components of community care reform in the United Kingdom (UK). Hospital discharge requires a different from of coordinated response to long... Read More about Care management in long-term care of older people.

Changes in sound-source localization for children with bilateral severe to profound hearing loss following simultaneous bilateral cochlear implantation (2018)
Journal Article
Killan, C. F., Harman, S., & Killan, E. C. (2018). Changes in sound-source localization for children with bilateral severe to profound hearing loss following simultaneous bilateral cochlear implantation. Cochlear Implants International, 19(5), 284-291. https://doi.org/10.1080/14670100.2018.1479147

Background: Sound localization is a valuable skill that children can develop to some extent via bilateral cochlear implants (biCIs). However, little is known regarding the change that can be expected in sound-source localization accuracy (SLA) pre- a... Read More about Changes in sound-source localization for children with bilateral severe to profound hearing loss following simultaneous bilateral cochlear implantation.

Priorities for long-term care resource allocation in England: Actual allocation versus the views of Directors of Service and older citizens (2018)
Journal Article
Clarkson, P., Davies, S., Hughes, J., Xie, C., Stewart, K., Clifford, P., & Challis, D. (2018). Priorities for long-term care resource allocation in England: Actual allocation versus the views of Directors of Service and older citizens. Journal of Long-Term Care, 2018, 13-23. https://doi.org/10.31389/jltc.2

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
Kingston, A., Wohland, P., Wittenberg, R., Robinson, L., Brayne, C., Matthews, F. E., …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., …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.

Informal and formal care: Substitutes or complements in care for people with dementia? Empirical evidence for 8 European countries (2017)
Journal Article
Bremer, P., Challis, D., Hallberg, I. R., Leino-Kilpi, H., Saks, K., Vellas, B., …Sauerland, D. (2017). Informal and formal care: Substitutes or complements in care for people with dementia? Empirical evidence for 8 European countries. Health Policy, 121(6), 613-622. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2017.03.013

© 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
Hassard, J., Teoh, K. R., Visockaite, G., Dewe, P., & Cox, T. (2017). The cost of work-related stress to society: a systematic review. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 23(1), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1037/ocp0000069

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
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.

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
Hall, C. L., Walker, G. M. .., Valentine, A. Z., Guo, B., Kaylor-Hughes, C., James, M., …Hollis, C. (2016). 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. BMJ Open, 6(1), Article e006838corr2. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2014-006838corr2

How Does Auditory Training Work? Joined-Up Thinking and Listening (2015)
Journal Article
Ferguson, M., & Henshaw, H. (2015). How Does Auditory Training Work? Joined-Up Thinking and Listening. Seminars in Hearing, 36(04), 237-249. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0035-1564456

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
Wang, Y., Hutchings, F., & Kaiser, M. (2015). Computational modeling of neurostimulation in brain diseases. In Computational Neurostimulation (191-228). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.pbr.2015.06.012

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
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.

Auditory training can improve working memory, attention, and communication in adverse conditions for adults with hearing loss (2015)
Journal Article
Ferguson, M. A., & Henshaw, H. (2015). Auditory training can improve working memory, attention, and communication in adverse conditions for adults with hearing loss. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, Article 556. https://doi.org/10.3389/FPG.2015.00556

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.