Research

  • From deficits to possibilities: the role of resilience

    Windle G, Roberts J (2023) From deficits to possibilities: the role of resilience. Journal of Dementia Care 31(2) 32-35. [su_box title=”Author details” box_color=”#bbe4fa” title_color=”#000000″] Gill Windle is a professor of ageing and dementia research and Jennifer Roberts is a post-doctoral researcher, both at the DSDC Wales Research Centre, School of Medical and Health Sciences, Bangor…...

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  • Research Summaries February 2023

    Self-assessment scale for care management This research developed a self-assessment scale for the management of care for people living with dementia. Key factors were: (1) ‘Person centred care’, (2) ‘Understanding of disease characteristics, treatment and care’, (3) ‘Understanding of people with dementia and care management according to their characteristics’ and (4) ‘Utilization of local resources’. …...

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  • JDC Research Summaries October 22nd 2022

    Blogging for people with dementia Stories of living with dementia are becoming more common in the public domain and these qualitative interviews explored the motivations and experiences of six UK bloggers. While offering practical challenges, blogging offered a valuable, personalised space for people with dementia to tell their own stories in their own way. Motivations…...

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  • Research Reports Sept/Oct 2022

    Research Reports, Sept/Oct 2022. Journal of Dementia Care 30(5) 37-38. GP care continuity Consulting the same doctor consistently (CGPC) is known to increase quality of care but its effects on people living with dementia are mostly unknown.  Using a range of measures, this retrospective study of the medical records of 9324 patients with dementia aged…...

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  • Research Summaries July/August 2022

    Person-centred communication Despite ongoing research and clinical focus on person-provider communication, these authors highlight the absence of a comprehensive theoretical position to underpin person-centred communication in dementia and older adult research. They employed several person-centred care and communication theoretical perspectives to ground the study, then developed a Person-Centred Communication Enhancement Model. The discussion provides an…...

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  • Blogs I’m Watching, Resources

    Fans of the Channel 4 soap Hollyoaks will have seen the story of Luke and his son Ollie unfolding.  It is not just any soap opera storyline about dementia, but an unusual one both in terms of its portrayal and the apparently meticulous research that the actors and programme makers have done.  Luke has been…...

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  • JDC Research Summaries 

    Community Support Services  Current policy guidance recommends that people diagnosed with mild-to-moderate dementia receive information and psychosocial interventions to improve their ability to ‘live well’ but it remains unclear to what extent this is achieved. This study collected information from over 1500 people living with dementia and over 1200 carers in England. It identified that…...

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  • Research

    [su_box title=”Evidence for Practice/Research news” box_color=”#bbe4fa” title_color=”#000000″] This section aims to keep readers up to date with research in dementia care and the current best evidence to support practice. We aim to provide a channel of two-way communication between researchers and practitioners, so that research findings  influence practice and practitioners’ concerns are fed into the…...

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  • Introducing CHARM: the Care Home Action Researcher-in-residence Model

    [su_box title=”Author details” box_color=”#bbe4fa” title_color=”#000000″] Isabelle Latham is senior lecturer and Faith Frost is research associate, both at the Association for Dementia Studies (ADS), April Dobson is head of dementia care and well-being at Hallmark Care Homes, Suzanne Mumford is head of nursing, care and dementia at Care UK, and Tracey Williamson is an honorary professor at the University of Worcester and consultant nurse for dementia at Betsi Cadwladr University Health Board. [/su_box] Carrying out research in care homes can be challenging because it fails to consider resources within those homes…...

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  • Bridging the generation gap: enlisting student support to improve well-being.

    Lesley Hobbs, Tony Charlton and Stuart Wright describe a study in which older secondary school students were supported and helped to befriend ‘low interacting’ care home residents, including those with dementia. Author/s: Lesley Hobbs, Tony Charlton, Stuart Wright For the full article please see the PDF download linked to the right. The full JDC archive…...

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