Just published! Our "labour of love" CoDAQ study we've worked on since 2019! How does #communication difficulty affect quality of life in #dementia and what support is available? Read it here: shorturl.at/0Xv71

📢RESEARCH FELLOW in dementia - post available at UCL! Come and join our friendly team working on a project to improve care and support planning for people with dementia who live alone. Details: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... Please share!

University College London seeks a Research Fellow to lead qualitative research on personalised dementia care for people without informal carers, in a new NIHR-funded project. Closing date: 28th April www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/research...

A great morning with the Bristol Dementia Voice group who were helping test out workshop materials for my PhD co-design workshops - using personas and live illustration. Feedback: discussion was 'much better' with live illustration, & it is hard to identify the needs of those living alone w dementia

Are you a #SLT in the UK working with people w #aphasia & family members/ others delivering communication partner training? Want to participate in an online discussion session in February or March 2025 about what comm strategies you address in rehab? Email [email protected] for details! 👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆

Seeking those with an interest in supporting #communication for people with #dementia to join my PhD project steering committee. Online meetings 2-3x a year. UK-based #SLT, #OT, memory clinicians, #GP, third-sector staff and people with lived experience of dementia sought. Email [email protected]

Calling all #UK #SLTs! The brilliant @healthlibraryholly.bsky.social needs participants for her important #research on #accessible #information #easyread - what a great opportunity to help improve info access for ppl with #communication #disabilities @carohaw.bsky.social @abracabadger.bsky.social

Keen to meet and work with people with multiple long term conditions and those who support them in Devon (UK), as part of my role as site lead, within the recently funded 5 year NIHR project CO-ACTION. fundingawards.nihr.ac.uk/award/NIHR20... Please get in touch if you would like more information.

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Are you an adult community SLT in the UK? Want to give your views on the SLT role in communication in #dementia? We're looking for a couple more participants to join a final online focus group on Monday 2nd Dec at 11am. Email me: [email protected] for more info. #bskySPEECHIES

Some preliminary findings from my #PhD research on communication intervention in #dementia presented in my poster at #UKDC2024 . Analysis is ongoing with one more focus group to come!

Thought-provoking day at #UKDC2024 - the importance of active listening, therapeutic value of play, and debate around 'lie telling' and redirection in dementia are take home messages for me.

📢Practitioners working with GP surgeries (GPs, nurses, dementia advisors, care co-ordinators....).Do you have conversations with people with #dementia and carers about their care/support needs? Contact me if you'd like to participate in this project! £20 voucher given. More info 👇 Please share!

New blog on realist interviews with people with dementia available at raid-er.com/blogs Co-written by attendees of the Realist Approaches in Dementia Evaluation and Research (RAID-ER) symposium held at the University of Plymouth in Nov. Check it out and let us know what you think.

Interesting paper which discusses the usefulness of realist approaches to move beyond barriers and enablers to deeper understanding of complex systems.