Dementias Platform UK supporting researchers worldwide
Dementia Researcher
01/25/21
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Cohorts and the data collected from them through longitudinal research studies have made a significant impact on our understanding of disease. With funding from the Medical Research Council, Dementias Platform UK (DPUK) has been at the forefront of this work for the past 5 years, providing dementia researchers with free access to more than 3 million health records from over 40 cohort studies, and a powerful, secure analytics platform. In our first ever ‘live recording’ we invited the audience into our virtual studio to watch Dr Megan O’Hare host a discussion on DPUK. Listen to discover what DPUK is, how it works, how it is helping researchers and how you can use the service. Guests on the show are Cognitive Neuropsychologist, Dr Sarah Baumeister, Senior Data & Science Manager from DPUK and University of Oxford and multi-disciplinary researcher Dr Danielle Newby, also from the University of Oxford. With a background in epidemiology, pharmacology and machine learning. Danielle is currently using DPUK to explore options for repurposing existing drugs for use in dementia. Adam Smith looks after the audience, and puts their questions to the panel at the end of the show. _____________________________________________________________________ For information on Dementias Platform UK visit: https://www.dementiasplatform.uk/ You can find out more about our panellists, and their work on our website: https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk A transcript of this podcast is also available here https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/podcast-dementias-platform-uk-supporting-researchers-worldwide _____________________________________________________________________ Like what you hear? Please review, like, and share our podcast - and don't forget to subscribe to ensure you never miss an episode. This podcast is brought to you in association with Alzheimer's Research UK and Alzheimer's Society, who we thank for their ongoing support.
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Researching Art to help people living with Dementia
January 11, 2021
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In this week’s show, we discuss how arts based methodologies and the knowledge and skills of an artist can be used within the field of health to create new understandings and promote wellbeing in people living with dementia. Our first guest is freelance Artist and Academic, Dr Megan Wyatt. Megan recently completed her PhD at Wrexham Glyndwr University, investigated how people living with dementia engage with and experience painting. We are also joined by Megan’s PhD Supervisor Dr Susan Liggett. Susan is the Associate Dean for the Research Faculty of Art Science and Technology at the University, and her research considers how visual arts can contribute to a better society. Both Megan and Susan are passionate about the benefits of Art in dementia, having both experienced the impact of the disease within close relatives. Together they co-authored a paper on “The Potential of Painting: Unlocking Disenfranchised Grief for People Living With Dementia” and are in the process of writing a chapter for the practical handbook of dementia to be published later this year. Dr Megan O’Hare hosted the show which was recorded in November 2020. The growing prevalence of dementia, combined with an absence of effective pharmacological treatments, highlights the potential of psychosocial interventions to alleviate the effects of dementia and enhance quality of life. Art, Dance, Music, Singing and other interventions have been proven to be effecting as a means to support improved wellbeing and reduce agitation in people living with dementia. Delivering these interventions and measuring their impact can be challenging, we hope this show is useful to anyone working in this field, and would love to hear from others to discuss this field in a blog for the Dementia Researcher website. _____________________________________________________________________ Review the paper discussed here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1054137318780577 You can find out more about our panellists, and their work on our website: https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk A transcript of this podcast is also available here https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/podcast-researching-art-to-help-people-living-with-dementia _____________________________________________________________________ Like what you hear? Please review, like, and share our podcast - and don't forget to subscribe to ensure you never miss an episode. This podcast is brought to you in association with Alzheimer's Research UK and Alzheimer's Society, who we thank for their ongoing support.
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Researching the impact of COVID-19 on dementia care
February 8, 2021
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This week we welcome Dr Tamlyn Watermeyer, Research Fellow from Edinburgh University into the hosts chair to talk with a research team, who rapidly responded to the COVID-19 pandemic. Exploring how they adapted to research the impact of COVID-19 on dementia care, and what they have uncovered. People living with dementia has been some of the hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. In the UK more than a quarter of those who have died had dementia, and an even larger number have been affected societal changes taken to protect people and to keep them safe. Loneliness and isolation are worsening symptoms and this has prompted a response from care services and researchers, to understand how best to help and deliver interventions. At the beginning of 2020, the NIHR and other research funders were fantastic. Very quickly providing funding to support COVID-19 related research. That funding wasn’t only spent on developing treatments and a vaccination, but also on how the virus and the measures taken to keep people safe, were affecting everyday life, society and care. This week’s guests are: Dr Clarissa Giebel, Research Fellow, University of Liverpool Jacqueline Cannon, Chief Executive of The Lewy Body Society Dr Stephen Mason, R&D Lead, Palliative Care Unit, University of Liverpool Along with the host of our show in her own work, Clarissa, Jacqueline and Stephen quickly adapted their research to discover, uncover what was happening within dementia care. To understand what was being done right, what was being doing wrong and what could be done better in the future. _____________________________________________________________________ View Dr Giebel et al. recent paper - COVID-19-related social support service closures and mental well-being in older adults and those affected by dementia: a UK longitudinal survey https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/11/1/e045889.full You can find out more about our panellists, and their work on our website: https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk A transcript of this podcast is also available here https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/podcast-researching-the-impact-of-covid-19-on-dementia-care/ _____________________________________________________________________ Like what you hear? Please review, like, and share our podcast - and don't forget to subscribe to ensure you never miss an episode. This podcast is brought to you in association with Alzheimer's Research UK and Alzheimer's Society, who we thank for their ongoing support.
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