Blogs are written by members of the CLAHRC East of England research collaboration on their areas of interest.
What does good look like when thinking about care homes? Blog by Claire Goodman. This blog first appeared on the British Geriatrics Society website. Claire Goodman is Professor of Health Care Research at University of Hertfordshire. Claire has a district nursing background and is a NIHR Senior Investigator. Her research focuses […]
Dementia friendly communities blog post 01/07/2017 The thing with maps… By Professor Tony Arthur What is it with maps? There is nothing as powerful as a map to demonstrate at a glance how social, demographic, health, and political factors are distributed within and between different regions of the country. In […]
Would you share or would you listen? Dr Mila Petrova, mp686@medschl.cam.ac.uk I felt ashamed at my ignorance. First meeting with my new bosses on a project on an end of life care register, 9 years of health research experience, 5 of them on the UK health services. And I don’t […]
Dementia friendly communities blog post 01/06/2017 Dementia Friendliness and Age Friendliness by Dr Stefanie Buckner Earlier DemCom blogs have focused on what Dementia Friendly Communities are, and on measuring their impact. This post looks at dementia friendliness in relation to age-friendliness. Both are approaches that have been adopted in […]
NIHR CLAHRC National Careers Day for Postdoc Research Careers in the Allied Health Professions By Angela Browne, CLAHRC EoE Buisness and Operations Manager On the 11th May 2017 the NIHR CLAHRC South London and NIHR CLAHRC East of England held a joint Careers Day for Allied Health Professionals (AHP) at […]
CLAHRC and Commissioning – Why I joined CLAHRC’s capacity building committee by Marek Zamborsky Commissioners work in cycles. They analyse, plan, do and review. Then, they start again. When I was applying for my first commissioning role (a few decent years ago) I dedicated a lot of time researching […]
Dementia friendly communities blog post 09/05/2017 When we say ‘dementia friendly’, what are we comparing it to? By Christopher Skedgel The DEMCOM study is, in part, about understanding the impact of dementia friendly communities on the well-being of people with dementia and their carers. We expect that different forms […]
Dementia friendly communities blog post 01/04/2017 What is a dementia friendly community? […]
A Q&A with the Chief Executive of Age UK Norwich about launching Norwich as a Dementia Friendly Community. A blog by Tony Arthur and Michael Woodward On the 25th January 2017 we attended the Dementia Friendly Norwich launch at the Forum in Norwich. We took the opportunity to speak to […]
Reflections from Health Services Research UK Conference 13 & 14 July 2016, Nottingham Conference Centre. The CLAHRC East of England’s IMPRESS (IMPRESS: Researching the Implementation and evaluation of Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) in CLAHRC East of England Research.) study benefited from two PPI co-researchers (Penny Vicary and Amander Wellings) and this conference […]