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APPLE-tree is a low intensity lifestyle dementia preventive intervention that showed similar results to more intense/medicalised interventions!

Professor Claudia Cooper and Dr Harriet Demnitz-King speaking in the House of Lords next to a slide show presentation. The title of the slide reads 'Public health policy for dementia risk reduction'.

How can public policy support dementia risk reduction?

@claudiacooper.bsky.social & @hdemnitzking.bsky.social spoke at the House of Lords this morning about the #denpruQM Nottingham Consensus, part of our prevention workstream.

Read more about the project on our website: tinyurl.com/5bc3dxth

Live from Canada! Lovely to hear updates from the INSTILLED study: conducting stakeholder-informed adaptations of psychosocial interventions for people living with dementia in diverse communities!

@jbudge.bsky.social
@denpru-qm.bsky.social
@claudiacooper.bsky.social
@qmulpsychiatry.bsky.social

Oliver Kelsey and Prof Claudia Cooper pictured beside a poster from DeNPRU-QM at the AAIC 2025 in Toronto

Great to see lots of interest in our survey of memory services in England undertaken by Oliver Kelsey, one of our fantastic Early Career Researchers, pictured with @claudiacooper.bsky.social, Co-Director of #denpruQM at #AAIC25 @qmulpsychiatry.bsky.social
Pre-print available: shorturl.at/IcsTa

Malvika and Claudia standing in front of a poster at the AAIC 2025 in Toronto

‪Interesting international discussions around the dementia workforce education and training sparked by the work of one of #denpruQM talented Early Career Researchers, Malvika Muralidhar, at #AAIC25 with @claudiacooper.bsky.social @qmulpsychiatry.bsky.social
Paper available: shorturl.at/1gUax

A great pic from the team from the team at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC 2025) in Toronto this week. Hope they have an interesting and productive time sharing work and meeting colleagues from around the world!
#AAIC25
@qmul-wiph.bsky.social

A flyer showing a man and woman sat next to each other on a bus. The text reads: Experiences of social care needs assessments among people with neurodegenerative conditions. Call for research participants. Are you living with a neurodegenerative conditions, or are you caring for a family member or friend who is living with a neurological condition? We want to hear about your experiences.

🧠 Are you affected by a neurodegenerative condition such as #dementia, #parkinsons, #MS or #MND?

📋 Have you had a Social Care Needs Assessment or Carer's Needs Assessment?

🗣️You could take part in an interview to share your experience.

📨Contact Dr Clarissa Giebel: clarissa.giebel@liverpool.ac.uk

At the Transitions Project Launch ar King's College, hearing about Deinstitutionalisation in South America

Very interesting seminar by Alexandra Burton this month at CPMH on creative health interventions to support the physical and mental health of people living with mental health problems.

Great work from Dr Alexandra Burton and colleagues around the role of #socialprescribing and wellbeing of older adults

Paul Wilson of @manchester.ac.uk & ARC-GM led a National Institute for Health and Care Research-funded study on the success of #socialprescribing link workers following a Government plan to empower NHS patients to feel more supported in accessing healthcare services.

👉 Read more: bit.ly/3FQnmpI

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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Social Care Research in NIHR Policy Research Units - Showcase webinar. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. Do you want to find out more about NIHR Policy Research Units (PRUs)? Join our upcoming showcase webinar hosted by the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Adult Social Care (ASCRU). The NIHR Policy Researc...

Interested in #SocialCare research in PRUs?

Join this webinar to hear Sedi Zabihi & @claudiacooper.bsky.social from DeNPRU-QM present findings from an analysis of English death certificates, looking at the comorbidities of people who die with dementia.

🕑 2pm
📅 5 June
👉 Register: shorturl.at/Y77f8

Research Assistant: Equitable health and social care Join NIHR DeNPRU-QM at Queen Mary as a Research Assistant to support dementia & neurodegeneration policy research. 18-month role starts after 6 Aug 2025.

Join NIHR DeNPRU-QM at Queen Mary as a Research Assistant to support dementia & neurodegeneration policy research. 18-month role, apply by 6th May @denpru-qm.bsky.social

www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/research...

Ya está abierta para responder nuestra encuesta para comprender las prácticas, actitudes y conocimientos de los profesionales #chilenos respecto al cuidado de personas mayores con deterioro o preocupaciones cognitivas: appletree.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

#Chile #demencia #prevención

Have you read our latest newsletter? If you're struggling to keep track of your inbox, you can find a direct link to all our newsletters on the DeNPRU-QM website 👇

denpru-qmul.nihr.ac.uk/our-news/

A meta-review and synthesis of the effectiveness of psychosocial interventions for people living with dementia nearing the end of life and their family carers - pls share!

🧠 Our current national survey focuses on Older People's Community Mental Health Teams (CMHTs).

🗺️ We'd like to speak to teams in Derby, Northampton, Leeds and the Pennine Care region.

📨 Is this you, or someone you know? If so, please e-mail denpru@qmul.ac.uk for more information. Thank you!

DeNPRU-QM researcher Ollie Kelsey presenting

DeNPRU-QM Co-Director Professor Claudia Cooper presenting

Panel discussion chaired by Dr Jeremy Isaacs

Thank you @rcpsych.bsky.social for inviting us to share our national survey of dementia diagnosis and care in English Memory Services at #OAPsych2025 last week.

@claudiacooper.bsky.social and Ollie Kelsey joined Dr Charlotte Deasy & @alzheimersresearchuk.org on a panel chaired by Dr Jeremy Isaacs.

Providing inclusive care and empowering people with dementia as a clinical pharmacist: a qualitative study of clinical pharmacist’s experiences Dementia is a growing global health concern, significantly impacting primary care settings, where the majority of care for people with dementia is provided. Underserved and vulnerable groups, who o...

New paper! Providing inclusive care and empowering people with #dementia as a clinical pharmacist: a #qualitative study - when engaging patients & carers in decision-making, which can be empowering, cultural beliefs & preferences must be considered - pls share
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A psychosocial goal-setting and manualised support intervention for independence in dementia (NIDUS-Family) versus goal setting and routine care: a single-masked, phase 3, superiority, randomised cont... UK Alzheimer's Society.

In our randomised controlled trial, we found that clients receiving NIDUS-family by video-call, phone or in-person were more likely to achieve the goals they set than those who didn’t receive NIDUS-family.

You can read more about this study here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38310894/

The NIDUS Study Discover the benefits of NIDUS-family, an innovative, co-designed intervention for dementia care that improves goal achievement and quality of life at home. Learn how personalized post-diagnostic supp...

You can visit our website to learn more about the NIDUS-Family intervention, access the intervention materials and read our blog posts!

thenidusstudy.co.uk

Well done Alice and Giulia 😊!!

The genetic relationship between ADHD and depression In his first Mental Elf blog, Tim van der Es discusses a Biological Psychiatry paper on the genetic relationship between ADHD & depression.

The genetic relationship between ADHD and depression www.nationalelfservice.net?p=213966

#ADHD #Depression #Genetics #BiologicalPsychiatry

🧵 THREAD

Great update from Agnes on the SCENE study into the role of social coaches in psychosis

New research, born out of community engagement work, shows that the symptoms people report prior to receiving a dementia diagnosis vary across ethnic groups.

www.qmul.ac.uk/media/news/2...

@qmulfmd.bsky.social @charlesmarshall.bsky.social @alzassociation.bsky.social @alzheimerssoc.bsky.social

Mariana and Agnes did a wonderful job presenting their work today!

TANTAUCO Task Force during the Rescue of Darwin's frogs in Chile

It's been an exciting week following the announcement of the Rhinoderma darwinii rescue operation from Tantauco Park to the London Zoo, part of the Zoological Society of London (ZSL). This vital initiative underscores the importance of international collaboration in safeguarding Darwin's frog.

Very productive first Business meeting of the year!
Really happy with the work from the PhD reps, I look forward to the new initiatives to keep motivated and supported our very friendly graduate community 💕

Systematic policy and evidence review to consider how dementia education and training is best delivered in the social care workforce, and how policy does or can enable its implementation in England Background Very many social care clients have dementia, but few social care workers receive dementia-specific training. Objective To systematically review dementia training interventions for social c...

The second #dementiaworkforce review from @denpru-qm.bsky.social focuses on the social care workforce @nihrsscr.bsky.social www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...