Staff from Cumbria Partnership NHS Foundation Trust’s Memory Matters Team have been trying to get Carlisle talking about dementia using an old fashioned bus and a bake off.
The team were on board Florence, a 1940s bus, in Carlisle city centre. Florence turned heads and started conversations before returning to Carleton Clinic in time for their annual Bake Off competition.
Victoria Irving from Carlisle, who works in the Memory Matters Team at Carlton Clinic explained the importance of events like this: “It’s about raising awareness of dementia and the services we offer with the public. We want to bring normality to family members when talking about dementia and will be on hand to give advice and support.”
The aim of this study was to explore treatment and healthcare experiences of people living with ileostomies, so nurses can build on best practice while caring for these patients. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
The number of quit attempts it takes a smoker to quit successfully is a commonly reported figure among smoking cessation programmes, but previous estimates have been based on lifetime recall in cross-sectional samples of successful quitters only. The purpose of this study is to improve the estimate of number of quit attempts prior to quitting successfully. Open Access Article
People with severe or profound intellectual and motor disabilities (SPIMD) encounter several risk factors associated with higher mortality rates. They are also likely to experience a cluster of health problems related to the severe brain damage/dysfunction. In order to earlier detect physical health problems in people with SPIMD, first of all, knowledge regarding the prevalence of physical health problems is necessary. The aim of this systematic review was to methodically review cross-sectional studies on the prevalence of various types of physical health problems in adults with SPIMD. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens details for full text. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
Anecdotal and caregiver reports often highlight the sociability and empathy of children with Williams syndrome (WS), a genetically based neurodevelopmental disorder characterised by a distinctive, cognitive and social phenotype. Despite these characteristics, people with WS have many difficulties navigating the social world. In this study, we investigated whether the heightened social motivation and empathy demonstrated by children with WS lead to prosocial behaviours such as instrumental helping. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens details for full text. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
Williams syndrome (WS) is associated with a distinct cognitive-behavioural phenotype including mild to moderate intellectual disability, visual-spatial deficits, hypersociability, inattention and anxiety. Researchers typically characterise samples of individuals with WS by their intellectual functioning and adaptive behaviour. Because of the low prevalence of the syndrome, researchers often include participants with WS across a broad age range throughout childhood and adulthood and assume participants demonstrate consistent cognitive development across ages. Indeed, IQ scores are generally stable for children and adolescents with WS, although there are significant individual differences. It is less clear whether this pattern of stable intellectual ability persists into adulthood. Furthermore, while adaptive behaviour is an important indicator of an individual's ability to apply their conceptual skills to everyday functioning, conflicting findings on the trajectories of adaptive behaviour in adolescents and adults with WS have been reported. The current study examined longitudinal profiles of cognitive and adaptive functioning in adolescents and adults with WS. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens details for full text. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
Young adults today have grown up in a society where information and communication technology (ICT) support empowerment and social participation. Young adults with mild-to-moderate intellectual disability are at risk for marginalization by the digital divide. The aim was to map and describe how municipal organizations in Sweden organize support in terms of policy and strategies to enable the use of ICT in social care for adults with a mild-to-moderate intellectual disability. You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
Horrific experiences often cast a pall upon our lives, but for some people it’s worse than others. A new study in Applied Cognitive Psychology explores a key reason for this difference known as “event centrality” – when we consider an experience to be core to our identity, the trauma that follows is typically more serious and longer lasting.
Existing literature suggests that the presence or absence of apraxia and associated parietal deficits may be clinically relevant in differential diagnosis of dementia syndromes. This study investigated the profile of these features in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) spectrum disorders, at first presentation. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details
Blog post. Teenagers, particularly boys, who try to kill themselves or are close with someone who attempted suicide could face a higher rate of risk factors for heart disease in their 20s, according to research published by the American Psychological Association.
Young adult men had higher blood pressure and systemic low-grade inflammation if they had attempted suicide as a teenager, while young adult women were more likely to be overweight/obese and have high blood pressure if they were close with someone who tried to kill him- or herself, according to a sample of approximately 8,000 people from a national study. The findings were consistent even when researchers controlled for education, social and economic adversity and behavioral issues.
We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis investigating the influence of acetylcholinesterase inhibitors (AChEIs) therapy on nutritional status and weight across observational and interventional studies. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details
Children with autism spectrum disorder often demonstrate unusual behavioral responses to sensory stimuli (i.e., sensory features). To manage everyday activities, caregivers may implement strategies to address these features during family routines. However, investigation of specific strategies used by caregivers is limited by the lack of empirically developed measures. In this study, we describe the development and pilot results of the Caregiver Strategies Inventory (CSI), a supplement to the Sensory Experiences Questionnaire Version 3.0 (SEQ 3.0; Baranek, 2009) that measures caregivers’ strategies in response to their children’s sensory features. You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you requesting.
To support integration of occupational therapy in primary care and research in this area, it is critical to document examples of occupational therapy in primary care. This study describes occupational therapy roles and models of practice used in primary care. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens details for full text. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you requesting.
Blog post. Depression has been called a "we-disease" because when the dark clouds arrive, it's not just the depressed person who is affected, but all those close to them. A new study in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationship explored these spillover effects in the context of romantic couples, where one or both individuals have a diagnosis of clinical depression. The US study broke new ground by asking both partners in each couple to provide their perspective on how depression had affected their relationship. Liesel Sharabi and her colleagues said their results show how "the experiences of both partners should be considered when treating depression."
The NHS Equality and Diversity Council is today publishing the inaugural report of the NHS Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES), showing results of the experiences of BME and white staff from the staff survey 2015 at every NHS trust across England.
A guideline produced by Great Ormond Street Hospital [1] on Aseptic non touch technique (ANTT) lists the wearing of well-fitted non-sterile gloves among its fundamental rules to avoid contamination.
The King’s Fund have published an interactive map of how technology and data are being used in health and care across England and the rest of the world.
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If you’re elderly or disabled and need your home adapting to help you carry on living there, it should soon become easier and quicker to apply for grants and assistance from Telford & Wrekin Council.
The Council’s Cabinet, which meets on 16 June, is due to approve an amended Housing Assistance Policy which will provide additional support to those most in need.
The Public Accounts Committee reports warns that stronger measures are needed to safeguard the interests of adults receiving personal budgets for social care.
This workshop is available to all nurses who are due to be revalidated
The aim of this training module is to support the nurse revalidation programme by providing an overview of NICE and Cochrane Library health databases and enabling delegates to obtain practical experience of conducting an effective literature search using a clinical database. Nurses are encouraged to bring a clinical question with them to the session which they can then investigate during the workshop.
A new report from the terminal illness charity, Marie Curie. ‘Hiding who I am: Exposing the reality of end of life care for LGBT people ,’ looks at the barriers that prevent LGBT people from accessing end of life care and highlights their real-life experiences.
Our interactive map brings together case studies from across England and the rest of world, highlighting some of the places that are experimenting with and implementing new technologies to achieve better health outcomes or more efficient care.
This map is not a comprehensive listing of all such projects – it is limited to a selection of case studies featured in our publications and at our events, plus the NHS test bed sites set up to evaluate the real-world impact of new technologies. We will add new case studies as we publish them.
This study examines the palliative care knowledge and attitudes towards caring for the dying patient of nurses working in care of older people settings in one rural region in Ireland. Design: A cross-sectional survey design was used combining two questionnaires: the palliative care quiz for nurses (PCQN) and the thanatophobia scale (TS). To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details
The current open trial evaluated an inference-based approach (IBA) to the treatment of obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) across symptom subtypes and treatment-resistant cases. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
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Recently, a critical commentary was published in the British Journal of Social Work in which the use of Randomised Controlled Trials (RCTs) to examine the effects of Family Group Conferencing (FGC) was questioned and alternatives were proposed to better examine the effects of FGC.
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Medical images on Trip has just got even more useful! A Twitter user suggested a great feature would be to restrict the images to those that are freely available to use. In other words, those with liberal (or no) copyright restrictions. As you’ll see in the image below we have a new tick box, “Only show images that are free to modify, share and use”
Open access. Letter. "Dye et al's1 timely editorial on ‘locked rehabilitation’ highlights the need for a closer working relationship between local and specialist commissioners in order to achieve appropriate, least-restrictive local care provision. It also raises the question whether the emergence of locked rehabilitation units is caused by a reduction in open hospital or community-based rehabilitation facilities, combined with a difficulty in accessing low secure units.........."
Dementia patients may express wishes that do not conform to or contradict earlier expressed preferences. Our understanding of the difference between their prior preferences and current wishes has important consequences for the way we deal with advance directives. Some bioethicists and gerontologists have argued that dementia patients change because they undergo a ‘response shift’. In this paper we question this assumption. We will show that proponents of the response shift use the term imprecisely and that response shift is not the right model to explain what happens to dementia patients. We propose a different explanation for the changed wishes of dementia patients and conclude that advance directives of dementia patients cannot be simply put aside. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details
Open access. This study explores the economic cost and carbon footprint associated with current patterns of prescribing long-term flupentixol decanoate long-acting injections. We conducted an analysis of prescription data from a mental health trust followed by economic and carbon cost projections using local and national data.
Open access. Using a retrospective observational approach, we aimed to discern whether there was a difference in metabolic parameters between psychiatric and general practice populations in the same locality. Second, we aimed to establish differences in metabolic parameters of patients taking olanzapine, clozapine or aripiprazole.
Negative symptoms are perhaps the most disabling feature of schizophrenia. Their pathogenesis remains poorly understood and it has been difficult to assess their development over time with imaging techniques. Study aims-To examine, using tensor-based structural imaging techniques, whether there are regions of progressive grey matter volume change associated with the development of negative symptoms. You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is a non-pharmacological intervention for depression. It has mixed results, possibly caused by study heterogeneity. You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
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