A group of UCL Mental Health Masters students summarise an RCT on the clinical and cost-effectiveness of the MARQUE intervention (Managing Agitation and Raising Quality of Life) for agitation in people with dementia in care homes.
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A group of UCL Mental Health MSc students summarise a recent clinical review of the challenges we face in providing end of life dementia care.
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Kate Baxter reviews a study by Trigg et al. (2018) which explores and compares the type and quantity of information that makes people feel comfortable when choosing a residential care home in the UK, Netherlands and Spain.
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Bruce McClure’s blog looks at a feasibility study of ‘LifeFul’, a reablement programme in the care home context.
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Martin Stevens considers the low uptake of direct payments in residential care: an evaluation of the Direct Payments in Residential Care Trailblazers.
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Emma Wincup and Katharine Sacks-Jones explore the findings of a recent qualitative study that asks: Do women with complex alcohol and other drug use histories want women-only residential treatment?
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Hilary Shepherd writes her debut blog on a new paper from the WHELD cluster RCT, which looks at the impact of antipsychotic review and psychosocial intervention on health-related quality of life in people with dementia living in care homes.
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Keir Harding explores a recent study of community-based, step-down, and residential specialist psychodynamic programmes for personality disorders, which includes some surprising findings.
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Mike Clark looks at a literature review and qualitative study of how handovers between staff are conducted in care homes.
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Jill Manthorpe discusses a qualitative study of care assistants experiences of looking after people with dementia in residential care.
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