Project Title: Care pathways for individuals diagnosed with Young Onset Dementia (YoD) Type of Research: Mixed methods study (Development Grant) Background: In the UK 5% of people living with dementia have been diagnosed with young onset dementia (YoD). This refers to people who are under the age of 65 when […]
New cases of dementia in the UK fall by 20% over two decades The MRC Cognitive Function and Ageing Study (CFAS) is a major Cambridge-based population study led by Professor Carol Brayne (DFEOL Theme Lead, CLAHRC EoE) involving collaboration with our local populations, localities and primary care health systems. New evidence […]
Are you a high performing early career researcher looking to build success with the UK’s leading business-facing University? The University of Hertfordshire is offering six new early career Research Fellow posts, as part of it’s investment in its future research staff and infrastructure. These new Research Fellow posts are each offered […]
“Taking the first tentative steps towards a PhD…” by Rachel Daly This is one of many firsts this week. I am attempting to write my first blog! So far this week I have also tweeted my first tweet and completed my first National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) residential […]
CLAHRC Research Features in Independent Review of NIHR Research on End of Life Care Services An independent themed review “Better Endings Right care, right place, right time” features a number of CLAHRC research projects as examples of evidence to support those delivering, planning or using end of life services. CLAHRC East of England Theme […]
The first three weeks of my CLAHRC PhD: A blog by Jason Corner Starting anything new puts me in state of flux ‘Am I doing enough or too little, do people like me?!’. I did not open a text book until I was 25, and was not the person you would […]
Sue Jones, PhD student on the NIHR research capacity in dementia care pilot programme (RCDCP): The psycho-social needs of carers This time last year I hadn’t considered doing a PhD, I was enjoying my clinical work as an Admiral Nurse and only found the CLAHRC PhD opportunity when idly scrolling […]
NICE have published their guideline on “Disability, dementia and frailty in later life – mid-life approaches to prevention”. This guideline covers mid-life approaches to delay or prevent the onset of dementia, disability and frailty in later life, and aims to increase the amount of time that people can be independent, healthy […]
“Well into Words’’ by Mr Barney Eden Personal Reflections on the International Bibliotherapy Conference Affiliated with and on behalf of the CLAHRC Prison Projects ‘Care to Older Prisoners’ and ‘Dementia Friendly Prisons’ – Dr Tine Van Bortel (P.I./ed.) “A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is […]
CLAHRC research into preventive potential of modifiable risk factors for dementia This research estimated the population-attributable risk of Alheimer’s worldwide for seven potentially modifiable risk factors that have consistent evidence of an association with the disease (diabetes, midlife hypertension, midlife obesity, physical inactivity, depression, smoking and low educational attainment). After […]