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✍🏾The art of friendliness: Organiser perspectives on curating dementia friendly cultural events James Rupert Fletcher Dr David Dobson Dr MaoHui Deng in Dementia on what makes events 'dementia friendly' Creative Manchester UoM School of Social Sciences UoM Humanities journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14…

Our young onset #dementia ID cards can be used by people living with the condition & their family members & friends. They can be useful if you ever find yourself in a situation when you may little a bit of help from others. Request our ID cards here: youngdementianetwork.org/resources/youn…

New paper in Dementia led by Heather Yemm - not open access but postprint will be in our Uni repositories or DM for pdf! See journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.117…

In a new Dementia paper, GIM co-author Dr. Rashmi Sharma & colleagues describe findings from the Decision-Making in Alzheimer's Research (DMAR) Project. Read “Supportive care decision-making processes of persons with dementia and their caregivers.” pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37656956/

Economics evidence can support better decision making. But there are challenges moving from evidence to better policy and practice. That’s what Gloria Wong & I discuss here doi.org/10.1177/147130… plus possible work-arounds. Part of STRiDE Dementia Project special issue in Dementia

Dementia co-editor Pam Roach is attending International Indigenous Dementia Research Network - say hi if you see her! #IIDRN23 #IIDRNconference23

News from the journal: all submissions describing research and work with Indigenous communities must include an Indigenous engagement section. More information here 👇🏽 journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cmsc…

🗞 First paper of 2024 published - take a look at our latest systematic review on the experiences of caring for someone with #dementia and a learning disability #LD in Dementia : journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14…

This is what @diversealz chatting about: How engaging in creative activities outside of standardized interventions helps family members of persons with Dementia by Fabian Hutmacher et al via Dementia (2021): journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14… Open access #diversealz

Pleased to announce the new Dementia position statement on Indigenous health & ethical publishing. Open access editorial also out today explaining our rationale. Thanks to the whole team at Dementia and at Sage for the unwavering support!! 👏🏽👏🏽 journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cmsc…

Great to see Tom Faulkner 1st first author paper out on young-onset #dementia!! Well done Tom, great to have moved from ARC North West Coast intern to PhD student! Dementia Young Dementia Network journals.sagepub.com/eprint/XKGSETF…

Our Co-EiC Dr. Pam Roach and editorial board member Dr. Carrie McAiney connecting at the CCNA-CCNV CCNA Partners Forum and Science Days 2024 in Montreal. A great event for researchers, people living with dementia, care partners, community, and scientific organizations 🤝

Reflections on co-production: Developing a dementia research funding application with a diverse lived experience group (2024) by Sarah Griffiths et al via Dementia journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14…

Well the good weather🌞🌄has finally made it to Lancaster just in time for us to announce who we are profiling this week! Today we are profiling Dr Caroline Swarbrick

Caroline joined Division of Health Research, Lancaster University in February 2019 and her research focuses on dementia, adopting participatory approaches and using a range of qualitative creative and sensory methods, including film, animation and music-making.

Caroline's research involves working collaboratively alongside people living with dementia and care partners as co-researchers and was recently part of the Economic and Social Research Council and @NIHRcommunity funded Neighbourhoods and Dementia Study (work programme 1 lead)...

... which was a five year programme (2014-2019) funded under the first Prime Minister’s Challenge on Dementia. Caroline is also co-editor of the Dementia and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Manchester.

Caroline's profile is here lancaster.ac.uk/health-and-med… and also please do look at our C4AR page to learn about our research group lancaster.ac.uk/health-and-med…

What a wonderful few days at the Vascular Training (VAST) Platform 2024 conference. Fantastic learnings and connections and superstar MSc student Meagan Ody won an award for best presentation 🎉🎉🎉 *proud supervisor moment*

Excited to announce a new special issue on citizenship and dementia. More details can be found on the website site: journals.sagepub.com/home/dema and here is the direct link to the call: journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/PDF/… Initial abstracts due April 10!