
Dementia Friendly Oral & Eye Care
Dementia Research Charity Chatathon
12/09/22
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Recorded at the Dementia Research Charity #Chatathon 2022 - Adam Smith interviews Dr Dia Soilemezi, Senior Research Fellow, University of Portsmouth and Dr Marianne Coleman, Clinical Vision Research Fellow, University of Melbourne.
Dr Dia Soilemezi - My research explores Home care/ oral care: Improving oral care for people who live with dementia and get support from care workers. Family carers and cohabiting: Home environment and how it changes for family carers (need for escape space, use of AT, strategies for safety, dementia-friendly homes).
Dr Marianne Coleman - Developing information about eye tests for people living with dementia and carers, and a training course for optometrists about dementia-friendly eyecare. These are based on qualitative research with people living with dementia, carers and optometrists.
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The 2022 Dementia Research Charity Chatathon LIVE was held on Friday 2nd December - A non-stop 12.5 hours livestream hosted by Adam Smith interviewing 68 Dementia Researchers and Special Guests working across all areas of discovery to beat Alzheimer's disease and all forms of dementia. Raising money for research and providing insights into the latest research taking place across the UK and Worldwide.
This year we are raising money for four amazing charities who all fund research - Alzheimer's Research UK, Alzheimer's Society, Race Against Dementia and The Lewy Body Society.
For more information and to donate visit http://www.chatathon.uk
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Dementia-related Missing Incidents, Prevention & Enabling Freedoms
December 9, 2022
•24m
Recorded at the Dementia Research Charity #Chatathon 2022 - Adam Smith interviews Dr Hector Perez, Postdoctoral Researcher & Busola Adekoya, PhD Student both from University of Waterloo.
Dr Hector Perez - Our research investigates dementia-related missing incidents, and the importance of preventive measures, such as dementia-friendly communities, alert systems, and risk profiles. We have a strong collaboration with stakeholders, such as persons living with dementia and older adults, caregivers, community organizations and technology developers. We are part of the Aging and Innovation Research Program.
Busola Adekoya - Our research investigates dementia-related missing incidents, and the importance of preventive measures, such as dementia-friendly communities, alert systems, and risk profiles. We have a strong collaboration with stakeholders, such as persons living with dementia and older adults, caregivers, community organizations and technology developers. We are part of the Aging and Innovation Research Program.
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The 2022 Dementia Research Charity Chatathon LIVE was held on Friday 2nd December - A non-stop 12.5 hours livestream hosted by Adam Smith interviewing 68 Dementia Researchers and Special Guests working across all areas of discovery to beat Alzheimer's disease and all forms of dementia. Raising money for research and providing insights into the latest research taking place across the UK and Worldwide.
This year we are raising money for four amazing charities who all fund research - Alzheimer's Research UK, Alzheimer's Society, Race Against Dementia and The Lewy Body Society.
For more information and to donate visit http://www.chatathon.uk
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Underlying Pathology & new ways to look at Frontotemporal degeneration
December 9, 2022
•30m
Recorded at the Dementia Research Charity #Chatathon 2022 - Adam Smith interviews Dr Lucy Chisman-Russell, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, and Tammaryn Lashley, Professor of Neuroscience both from University College London.
Dr Lucy Chisman-Russell - I am a postdoctoral researcher funded by the Bluefield Project. I am the co-ordinator of the FTD Prevention Initiative, helping to link together the genetic FTD cohort studies from around the world, and liaising with pharmaceutical companies as new drug trials start for people with FTD. My research interests initially focused on social cognitive assessments in FTD using instructionless eye tracking tasks but have expanded in my postdoc role to the development of digital and remote markers in FTD.
Professor Tammaryn Lashley - My research is based around various neurodegenerative disease, including Alzheimer's disease and Frontotemporal Dementia. We use post-mortem human brain tissue to investigate the underlying pathological mechanisms that cause or are involved in the disease pathogenesis.
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The 2022 Dementia Research Charity Chatathon LIVE was held on Friday 2nd December - A non-stop 12.5 hours livestream hosted by Adam Smith interviewing 68 Dementia Researchers and Special Guests working across all areas of discovery to beat Alzheimer's disease and all forms of dementia. Raising money for research and providing insights into the latest research taking place across the UK and Worldwide.
This year we are raising money for four amazing charities who all fund research - Alzheimer's Research UK, Alzheimer's Society, Race Against Dementia and The Lewy Body Society.
For more information and to donate visit http://www.chatathon.uk
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