
The NIDUS Study
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The New Interventions for Independence in Dementia Study (NIDUS) aims to support people with dementia and their carers to live independently at home.
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https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/research/our-research/research-projects/nidus-project 14-05-2018 16:00:53
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New support intervention for people with dementia and carers shows ‘rare positive result' in trial led by Claudia at NIHR PRU in Dementia and Neurodegeneration QM in Wolfson Institute of Population Health, funded by Alzheimer's Society. NIDUS-family package of care and support helps people with dementia attain their personal goals.


Research led by Professor Claudia Cooper at Queen Mary University of London shows that a new therapy, NIDUS-Family, helps people with dementia and their family carers attain their personal goals. Read more about this research we funded: bit.ly/48XqZUl NIHR PRU in Dementia and Neurodegeneration QM


“the study is really exciting because it gives people the opportunity to help manage their own care, which is such an important part of things” Good to see US coverage of our newly released NIDUS-family intervention study medicalnewstoday.com/articles/new-p… via Medical News Today

How did NIDUS-Family work? The NIDUS process evaluation results identified four key themes around being relationship-, person- and carer-focused. You can read the preprint here: medrxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… Great work by Danielle Wyman and team 👏 Claudia Alzheimer's Society

📢We have preprinted our pre-implementation study. We explored professional stakeholders’ perspectives of the NIDUS-Family support. We will use the findings to inform our next implementation study. Claudia Ayesha Dar Jessica Budgett eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…

Exciting opportunity to join our supportive team and work on the NIDUS-Family implementation study based at QMUL Centre for Psychiatry & Mental Health. Great RA role to develop mixed methods research and clinical skills: qmul.ac.uk/jobs/vacancies… Please RT 😊 Claudia The APPLE-Tree Study NIHR PRU in Dementia and Neurodegeneration QM

Great day filming with EL Learning Design yesterday developing our resources in preparation for NIDUS-Family implementation 🎬 Thanks to our family carers and study team who shared their experiences. Will share resources and more details about our implementation study soon!

Fantastic day discussing planning our NIHR PRU in Dementia and Neurodegeneration QM survey for home care services with Bluebird Care Home Instead agency managers and Kritika Samsi HSCWRU Dr Anita Goh 🧠 🇦🇺 🇲🇾 She/her. Own views. NARI Claudia and planning next steps The NIDUS Study thanks all for coming to QMUL Centre for Psychiatry & Mental Health!


NIDUS-professional feasibility RCT published! Looking forward to building on them with NIHR PRU in Dementia and Neurodegeneration QM Bluebird Care Home Instead QMUL Centre for Psychiatry & Mental Health Priment Clinical Trials Unit Kritika Samsi academic.oup.com/ageing/article…

Great to see this The NIDUS Study awarded Article of the Month (Feb) by InterdemEurope. Congrats to team led by Claudia A psychosocial goal-setting and manualised support intervention for independence in dementia (NIDUS-Family) versus … pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38310894/


Process evaluation for NIDUS-Professional by Dan Kelleher Dementia at Bradford, lots to consider for next steps supporting home care workforce for people with dementia QMUL Centre for Psychiatry & Mental Health NIHR PRU in Dementia and Neurodegeneration QM Priment Clinical Trials Unit Dr Anita Goh 🧠 🇦🇺 🇲🇾 She/her. Own views. Mark Wilberforce Yvonne Birks academic.oup.com/ageing/article…

The home care workforce is a very important workforce looking after people at home so they can be independent and within their communities for as long as they can/wish. Super important research by QMUL Centre for Psychiatry & Mental Health! #HomeCare #dementia

Great to welcome Dr Jayashree Dasgupta 🇮🇳 & Prof Keerti to QMUL Centre for Psychiatry & Mental Health yesterday for a very interesting presentation on the challenges of developing dementia homecare in India 🇮🇳 Looking forward to continuing discussions in Bengaluru later this year! The NIDUS Study Claudia


On set with @carterchelt, @DanielleNimmons and our plant prop! 🎥🪴 Thanks EL Learning Design for filming the EQUATED study video on accessing dementia diagnosis in ethnic minority communities & the The NIDUS Study video on GAS goal setting. NIHR PRU in Dementia and Neurodegeneration QM QMUL Centre for Psychiatry & Mental Health Claudia


Just out: pre-implementation NIDUS-family The NIDUS Study: bit.ly/3Ww4W21 Health & social care valued this personalised dementia post-diagnostic programme, which improves attainment of treatment goals Alzheimer's Society Jill Manthorpe Jessica Budgett NIHR PRU in Dementia and Neurodegeneration QM

Congratulations to the @ NIDUS_study programme PPI group who have been shortlisted as finalists at the Alzheimer's Society's Dementia Involvement Awards. The interventions were co-designed by the PPI group, and they have been vital at every step of the studies. Alzheimer's Society

Congratulations The NIDUS Study PPI group on the nomination! Your partnership in co-creating NIDUS-family and NIDUS-professional are why these interventions were valued and helped participants - pleased to be continuing our work together as we plan their roll out @DrMegsArmstrong

Had a fantastic day at the #dementiainvolvementawards celebrating the amazing work of the NIDUS PPI group 🏆 From the planning stage & co-design to now starting implementation, our PPI members have been invaluable - THANK YOU! 👏 Jessica Budgett Claudia Alzheimer's Society


Looking forward to presenting our NIHR PRU in Dementia and Neurodegeneration QM work highlighting training needs of socialcare workforce with Yvonne Birks at this seminar Wolfson Institute of Population Health Dr Clarissa Giebel 🇪🇺 🇩🇪 Dr Karen Harrison Dening