Elderly Care and Ageing
Loneliness in old age is a significant predictor of cognitive outcomes. With Alzheimer's Disease fast becoming the leading cause of mortality, we are facing the need for institutional awareness of cognitive loss as a result of the natural ageing process. Community care services have the potential to create capabilities that can help the elderly live fulfilled lives. Meanwhile, NHS services are modernising in order to take on increasing numbers of dementia cases. Such stretching of community, third sector and public health services requires a thorough understanding of user needs, as well as elasticated service provisions that can take existing knowledge (for example cancer palliative care) and apply it to dementia.
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Relevant experience:
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University College London, Division of Psychiatry (2019-2020)
Postdoctoral Researcher: The Empowering Better End of Life Care in Dementia (EMBED-Care) project at the UCL Division of Psychiatry aims to change the conversation about palliative care in dementia. Whilst services and wellbeing interventions for end of life care are well established within other conditions such as cancer, provisions for dementia require service development that take into consideration the cognitive profiles, wellbeing, and decision making capacity of individuals with dementia.
Journal of Palliative Care (2020)
Co-author: C J Evans, J Aworinde, B Candy, R Mughal, J Anderson, R Harding, E Sampson (2020) A logic model of integrated palliative dementia care to optimise quality of life for people with dementia nearing the end of life; An overview of systematic reviews and meta-synthesis. 11th World Congress of the European Association of Palliative care, Pallermo, May 14-16.
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Southwark Council: Participle (2009-2010)
Research question: How can elderly individuals could build real, long lasting relationships with members of their community? Service design/ organisational behaviour change.
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