Narin Aker
@n_aker_
@NIHRSPCR PhD student at @UCL. JSPS Research Fellow at @Osaka_univ. Interested in health equity, dementia, palliative care, and culture.
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12-12-2018 20:34:01
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Our paper summarising 40 years of research on caregiver burden and coping in informal carers of dependent adults and older people onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sm… reporting on our global meta-analysis of 80 studies important work led by Juan Carlos Muñoz IDEA Lab UCL UCL Brain Sciences UCL Psychiatry
Do you live with #dementia and identify as Black African or Caribbean? Narin Aker is conducting research to support people with dementia and carers from minority ethnic groups, and would love to hear from you. For more information, please email Narin Aker at [email protected].
🚨Dr Abi Woodward and Sarah McMullen have developed an infographic with #PPIE from their NIHR School for Primary Care Research project on improving support for Pakistani #carers through #socialprescribing. Developed through research with carers & stakeholders. Animations in English/Urdu coming soon!
If you’re at #BGSconf tomorrow come see me and Liz Sampson talking about nutrition and dementia end of life care British Geriatrics Society
Out now! Our survey findings in BMC Medical Ethics. Researchers want #dementia specific training on complexities of determining capacity. Dr Anna Volkmer Victoria Shepherd Springer Nature. Thanks to all researchers who took part 🙏 rdcu.be/dJbff
Trilled to announce that my film Dementia: The Island Journey has been selected for the Windrush Caribbean Film Festival Film Festival in London! A huge thank you to the film crew and everyone who has supported Stay tuned for screening details! Would love to see some of you there! 🌟🎥
We are looking for #healthcareprofessionals who work within #primarycare such as GPs,nurses, physios, pharmacists, ACPs etc and identify, manage or support people with #frailty to take part in a focus group. 📞 07741383814 📩 [email protected] More below👇 ❗️ Please RT ❗️
🎉 New PriDem: tailored, local, timely dementia support paper published! 🎉 Well done team, especially Emily Moran Spencer. Access to personalised dementia care planning improved when GP practices were supported by Clinical Dementia Lead. Read here: bmjopen.bmj.com/content/14/7/e… UCL Primary Care & Population Health UCL IEHC
I've written a blog for National Institute for Health and Care Research discussing how we recruited and followed-up more diverse populations of people with #Parkinsons from #primarycare in the PD-Care #clinicaltrial. We recommend using GP sites to reach more people. Read it here: bit.ly/3WyiOsD UCL Primary Care & Population Health
Emily Spencer Emily Moran Spencer shares her experience of childbirth and how it relates to the struggles people with #dementia face in being believed. Read more on her blog! #HealthcareBias #PainAwareness pod.fo/e/2634d1
Important review just our by Narin Aker Experiences and access of palliative and end of life care for older people from minority ethnic groups link.springer.com/article/10.118…
🚨New publication! Important review by Narin Aker on the experiences and access of palliative and end of life care for older people from minority ethnic groups ⬇️ link.springer.com/article/10.118…
Thanks all those who have engaged with the new #Dementia Ethics Exchange researcher community. So far we've had researchers sharing ethically approved resources, articles, guidance documents and news. Join us using the link below Dementia Researcher
Our new paper on rural #palliative care out now - Innovative and best models of palliative and EOL care – with focus on rural and remote communities journals.lww.com/co-supportivea… Prof Mari Lloyd-Williams Dr Caroline Mogan Dr Karen Harrison Dening National Institute for Health and Care Research Wolfson Institute of Population Health Barts and The London, Queen Mary
Excited to share our paper focused on supporting #Pakistanicarers through #socialprescribing published just in time for #carersrightsday this week! Dr Abi Woodward onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/he…
Congratulations to Narin Aker who passed her PhD today Health inequalities towards the end of life for people with dementia from Black African and Caribbean backgrounds. A pleasure to supervise. Nuriye Kupeli Thank you to her wonderful examiners Nicola Morant & Ben Hicks