39 research outputs found
Correspondence to Mary Ann Smith From Colston Chandler and Beverly Savage, March 30, 1960
No full textCorrespondence to Mary Ann Smith and "Friends and Brothers in Christ" from Colston Chandler and Beverly Savage of the Student Christian Movement in New England. The letter supports "recent demonstrations of Southern students to oppose lunch counter segregation." 2 pages
The impact of social isolation due to the COVID-19 pandemic on patients with dementia and caregivers
No full textSupplementary Material: To view supplementary material for this article, please visit https://doi.org/10.1017/neu.2022.12.Copyright © The Author(s) and Scandinavian College of Neuropsychopharmacology 2022. Objective:
Social distancing to limit COVID-19 transmission has led to extensive lifestyle changes, including for people with dementia (PWD). The aim of this study, therefore, was to assess the impact of lockdown on the mental health of PWD and their carers.
Methods:
Forty-five carers of PWD completed a telephone interview during the baseline assessment of the SOLITUDE study to gather information on life conditions and changes in symptoms of PWD during lockdown. Associations between changes in symptoms of PWD and carers’ concerns and mental health were investigated.
Results:
About 44% of carers experienced anxiety and irritability and reported changes in behavioural and cognitive symptoms in PWD. These changes were associated with worse carers’ mental health and concerns about faster disease progression (χ2 = 13.542, p < 0.001).
Conclusion:
COVID-19-related social isolation has had a negative impact on patients’ and carers’ mental health. Potential long-term neurocognitive consequences require further investigation.This research received no specific grant from any funding agency, commercial or not-for-profit sectors
Captain Colston
No full textA ship of Irish immigrants defeats a pirate ship.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/kgbsides_uk/1711/thumbnail.jp
The new left in American politics: students for a democratic society and the students nonviolent coordinating committee, 1966
No full textSocial work assessment in the Illinois Institute for Juvenile Research region five, Champaign, Illinois, 1964
No full textA comparison of the gross scores of one hundred college freshmen, fifty girls and fifty boys, on the Thurstone Psychological Examination with their time and error scores on a motor learning test, 1933
No full textThe impact of social isolation due to COVID-19 on symptom progression in people with dementia:: Findings of the SOLITUDE Study
No full textBackground: People with dementia (PWD) are vulnerable to abrupt changes to daily routines. The lockdown enforced on 23rd March 2020 in the UK to contain the expansion of the COVID-19 pandemic limited opportunities for PWD to access healthcare services and socialise. The SOLITUDE study explored the potential long-term effects of lockdown on PWD’s symptoms and carers’ burden.Methods: Forty-five carers and 36 PWD completed a telephone-based assessment at recruitment (T0) and after 3 (T1) and 6 months (T2). PWD completed measures validated for telephonic evaluations of cognition and depression. Carers completed questionnaires on their burden and on 38 PWD’s health and answered a customised interview on symptom changes observed during the first months of lockdown. Longitudinal changes were investigated for all outcome variables with repeated-measures models. Additional post hoc multiple regression analyses were carried out to investigate whether several objective factors (e.g. demographics and time under social restrictions) and carer-reported symptom changes observed following lockdown before T0 were associated with all outcomes at T0. Results: No significant changes were observed in any outcomes over the 6 months of observations. However, post hoc analyses showed that the length of social isolation before T0 was negatively correlated with episodic and semantic memory performance at T0. Carers reporting worsening of neuropsychiatric symptoms and faster disease progression in PWD also reported higher burden. Moreover, carer-reported worsening of cognitive symptoms was associated with poorer semantic memory at T0.Conclusion: PWD’s symptoms and carers’ burden remained stable over 6 months of observation. However, the amount of time spent under social restrictions before T0 appears to have had a significant detrimental impact on cognitive performance of patients. In fact, carer-reported cognitive decline during social isolation was consistent with the finding of poorer semantic memory, a domain 54 sensitive to progression in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Therefore, the earlier stricter period of social isolation had a more detrimental impact on patients and their carers, followed by a plateau. Future interventions may be designed to maintain an optimal level of social and cognitive engagement for PWD in challenging times to prevent abrupt worsening of symptoms and associated detrimental consequences on patients’ families
Dealing with the past: a local and global imperative. Part I. [Blog post]
No full textIn this blog post, the author reflects on some of the general issues arising in relation to justice for past wrongs, taking as its starting point the toppling of the statue of the seventeenth century Bristol slave trader, Edward Colston in 2020
[Photograph 2012.201.B0318.0211]
No full textPhotograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Will Durant, Author .
