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Professor Linda Clare works with people with dementia to understand what helps them to experience a good quality of life and live well with the condition.
Dementia care and support
Our work around dementia care and support focuses on three key groups:
In addition, Exeter is a key partner in the Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care South West Peninsula (PenCLAHRC). Our academics contribute to the Dementia Care Research Programme, which aims to enhance the experience of care, to improve health outcomes, and to reduce unnecessary costs for patients with dementia and their carers. Read more on PenCLAHRC’s website.
Dementia care and support - primary investigators
| Name | Role | Keywords |
|---|---|---|
| Professor Clive Ballard | Professor of Age-Related Diseases | Dementia, antipsychotic medications, non-pharmacological interventions, cognitive health, neuropsychiatric symptoms, dementia care, clinical trials |
| Professor Linda Clare | Professor of Clinical Psychology of Ageing and Dementia | Ageing, cognitive health, living well with dementia, wellbeing, age-related disability, rehabilitation, dementia, dementia care |
| Dr Jo Thompson Coon | Associate Professor in Evidence Synthesis | Evidence synthesis, systematic reviews, care homes, ageing population |
| Dr Anne Corbett | Senior Lecturer in Dementia Research | Dementia, dementia reduction, drug discovery, clinical trials, care home research, clinical trial delivery, online research, translational research, patient and public involvement |
| Professor Chris Fox | Professor of Clinical Psychiatry | Dementia, dementia prevention, antipsychotic medications, non-pharmacological interventions, cognitive health, neuropsychiatric symptoms, dementia care, clinical trials, artificial intelligence, care home research |
| Dr Ruth Garside | Senior Lecturer in Evidence Synthesis | Evidence synthesis, systematic reviews, care homes, ageing population |
| Dr Siobhan O’Dwyer | Senior Lecturer (Ageing & Family Care) | Wellbeing of older adults and family carers, resilience, suicide and homicide risk family carers in dementia, non-pharmalogical approaches to dementia care, social media |
| Professor Rose McCabe | Professor of Clinical Communication | Professional-patient communication, psychosis, depression, dementia |
| Dr Sharon Savage | Lecturer in Ageing and Dementia | Diagnosis, cognitive interventions, Semantic Dementia, Frontotemporal Dementia, Transient Epileptic Amnesia, Motor Neurone Disease, Methodological quality in rehabilitation studies |
| Joao Correa Delgado | Alzheimer’s Society Research Fellow | Alzheimer's, dementia |
| Dr Vicki Goodwin MBE | Senior Research Fellow | Physiotherapy, rehabilitation, fall prevention, older people, Parkinson’s, dementia |