Blog – Alzheimer’s Research UK Scotland Network: Growing Dementia Research in Glasgow
Dr Fiona KerrNew blog from Dr Fiona Kerr, and Dr Lorraine Work sharing news from the recent ARUK Scotland network meeting.
My Research
Blog – Consenting study participants in dementia research
Dr Anna VolkmerNew blog from Anna Volkmer – tips and hints and guidance (and how to use them) for anyone attempting to produce an information or consent form for their study.
Blog – International collaboration: Managing primary progressive aphasia
Dementia ResearcherNew blog from Anna Volkmer – An international collaboration: Spreading the word on speech and language therapy approaches to managing primary progressive aphasia.
Scientist Focus: Cassy Fiford
Alzheimer’s Research UK talking to Cassy Fiford a research assistant and PhD student to find out why she is passionately involved in dementia research.
Blog – Pencils at the ready: exploring the arts and health archives at the Wellcome Library
Blog from Siobhan O’Connor exploring co-designing technology with people with dementia
Blog – Using co-design methods to co-create technology with people with dementia and their carers
Over the last few years there has been an explosion of technology in healthcare. Ever since personal computing evolved in the 1980’s, followed by the Internet (or World Wide Web),…
Podcast – Improving Care & Support for People with Dementia
ECRs from Leeds Beckett University talk about their work delivering research on improving care & support for people with dementia
Podcast – Collaborative work in non-cognitive aspects of Alzheimer’s disease
How research has evolved quite considerably from the days of single author papers to exciting collaborations.
Blog – Better Conversations for people with Primary Progressive Aphasia
Anna Volkmer is a NIHR Doctoral Fellow at University College London, in her blog she discusses her work to develop a new speech and language therapy intervention for people with language led dementia.
Podcast – Discussing the MARQUE Study – Managing Agitation in Dementia
In this podcast Dr Megan O’Hare talks to Francesca La Frenais, and Dr Penny Rapaport about the MARQUE Study, and how their work is helping us to understand what causes agitation and how the interventions tested in this study are improving quality of life for those living with dementia, and helping carers.
Day in the life of a researcher
Varied is how I would sum up a day in the life of a researcher. A lot depends on the type of study you are working on, your role in…
Blog – Caring for people who have dementia in Community Hospitals
Paul Brownbill, is from the University of South Wales, in his blog he talks about ‘Quality of Life and the Role of Communal Space in Sheltered Housing’