On way to talk #ASAC2019 about #START being delivered in third sector through Alzheimer's Society. Implementation research to make a difference to people living with dementia Penny Rapaport Andrew Sommerlad Naaheed Mukadam #shuhalaabbas #IainLang #sarahamador UCL Psychiatry Exeter Med School

Proud to be graduating together UCL Psychiatry UCL Marie Curie UCL MARQUE Study The NIDUS Study

Moïse Roche tells us rates of dementia is higher among black people than white people in the UK. But we racialise diseases and most materials on dementia we see an older white woman surrounded by her family. One man said dementia is "an old white person's disease" #BSG19

Fascinating discussion about our responsibilities as researchers BSG 2019

START (STrAtegies for RelaTives) of people with dementia. START carers a fifth as likely to be depressed as controls for 6 years. Patient costs nearly 3x less (£5759 START; £16964 controls; year 6) Martin Knapp Penny Rapaport BJPsych Journals Alzheimer's Society bit.ly/32qvcOa

Huge thank you to Quincy Samus for chairing our featured research session on developing new ways of working with family carers, home carers and people living with dementia to promote independence at home #AAIC2019

Our systematic review on the effects on non-pharmacological interventions on functioning of people living with dementia at home is out now in open access. Iona Scott with Claudia Monica Leverton Kenneth Rockwood, Penny Rapaport, et al... authorservices.wiley.com/api/pdf/fullAr…

It’s not rocket science(!) but you’ve got to think about impact...

Not quite done yet celebrating Alex's great achievement. And with thanks to supervisors Prof David Osborn and Prof Kate Walters for getting Alex through her viva with only minor corrections

🎉EXCITING POST🎉 We are looking for not one, but FOUR new Research Assistants to join our wonderful and supportive NIDUS team! Post holders will be delivering the NIDUS-FAMILY intervention to relatives and people living with dementia at home. Apply here: jobs.ac.uk/job/BVV923/res…

Thanks to all the National Institute for Health and Care Research Economic and Social Research Council The APPLE-Tree Study dementia hack participants, Prof Miguel Rio, Penny Rapaport and the other judges for making this event such a success, and congratulations team Eden! We looking forward to working with you

#DementiaCare: Los 8 manuales de"Estrategias para Familiares" (START) disponibles en español. Se puede administrar por teléfono o videoconsulta. Desarrollado en UCL Psychiatry por Gill Livingston y Penny Rapaport : ucl.ac.uk/psychiatry/res… @LTCcovid Matia

START have released the results of the first study in Japan that's just been published. You can find START manuals in #english #japanese #urdu #spanish on their website: ucl.ac.uk/psychiatry/res… Gill Livingston Penny Rapaport journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

Come and work with The NIDUS Study and The APPLE-Tree Study one day a week as clinical psychologist supervising and supporting training to deliver our manualised interventions - atsv7.wcn.co.uk/search_engine/…

And thank you to all the brilliant CRN staff working with us on this!

Absolutely brilliant - well deserved and well done!

Hi Boots. I don't understand why you contact forgetful people to tell them you are stopping blister packs. Many are very vulnerable people and have blister packs to maintain independence. What are you thinking?