3,684 research outputs found
Facilitating independence: The benefits of a post-diagnostic support project for people with dementia.
No full textProviding support in the form of information, advice and access to services or social events is promoted as beneficial for people newly diagnosed with dementia and their families. This paper reports on key findings from an evaluation of a post-diagnostic support pilot project in Scotland addressing local service gaps, namely information provision, emotional and practical support and maintaining community links. Twenty-seven participants (14 people newly diagnosed with dementia and 13 family carers) were interviewed at two time points: T1 shortly after joining the pilot project and T2 approximately six months later, to ascertain their views on existing services and the support offered by the pilot project. A comparative thematic analysis revealed that the project facilitated increased independence (associated with increased motivation and self-confidence) of people with dementia. The project illustrates what can be achieved if resources are targeted at providing individualised post-diagnostic support, particularly where there are service delivery gaps
Digital Attachment: PhD Thesis Fiona Rochholz, Univ. Bremen, MARUM
No full textDigital Attachment for PhD Thesis by Fiona Rochholz, submitted September 2019 at University of Bremen, Germany.
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Re Imogen: A step in the wrong direction
No full textJowett, Stephanie & Kelly, Fiona (2021) Re Imogen: A step in the wrong direction. Australian Journal of Family
Law, 34(1), pp. 31-56.<br
Recognising and supporting self in dementia: a new way to facilitate a person-centred approach to dementia care
No full textThis paper reports findings from a three-year study which integrated Kitwood’s (1997) person-centred and Sabat’s (2001) selfhood approaches in the design, fieldwork and analysis of a multi-method observational study that explored the social worlds of 14 people with dementia in continuing-care. The types of interactions that participants experienced in everyday ward life and during creative sessions were identified by observing, video-recording and engaging with them and by Dementia Care Mapping. The participants’ responses to such interactions in terms of their well- or ill-being and expressions of self were identified and documented. The findings indicate that in the wards, staff interactions were often limited and sometimes abusive and that participants experienced ill-being, whereas during creative sessions, interactions were generally facilitatory and celebratory with the participants experiencing wellbeing. By developing the selfhood approach and integrating it with the person-centred approach, I argue that recognising and supporting selfhood (or not) during interactions can lead to qualitatively different staff behaviours, with consequences for the well- or ill-being of people with dementia. There is scope for incorporating this developed selfhood framework into staff training, for it has the potential to transform practice and the experiences of people with dementia in receipt of care
Building Breastfeeding Research Relations and Beyond: An Interview With Fiona Dykes
No full textProfessor Fiona Dykes is Professor Emerita of Maternal and Infant Health at the University of Central Lancashire in the United Kingdom (UCLAN). Fiona has a particular interest in the global, sociocultural, and political influences upon infant and young child feeding practices; her methodological expertise is in ethnography and other qualitative research methods. She founded the Maternal and Infant Nutrition and Nurture Unit (MAINN) in 2000 which she led until she retired from her full-time professorship in 2020. Fiona established the associated MAINN Conference in 2007. The MAINN conference is a 3 day, international, peer reviewed event held bi-annually in the United Kingdom and, more recently, in alternate years overseas (Sydney, Australia; Falun, Dalarna, Sweden; and Florida, United States). The conference draws together key researchers in the field of infant and young child feeding from around the world. Fiona was a founding member of the journal Maternal and Child Nutrition. She is author of Breastfeeding in Hospital: Mothers, Midwives and the Production Line (Routledge) and co-author, with Dr Tanya Cassidy, of Banking on Milk: An Ethnography of Donor Human Milk Relations (Routledge). She is also joint editor of several books including Infant and Young Child Feeding: Challenges to Implementing a Global Strategy (Wiley-Blackwell) and Ethnographic Research in Maternal and Child Health (Routledge). This interview was conducted on April 20, 2023, by Dr. Tanya Cassidy, and is based on a verbatim transcription and edited for readability
Sorting out the schedule
No full textThe new Appendix M category added to the Standard for Uniform Scheduling of Medicines and Poisons (SUSMP) from February this year offers optimism that additional medicines might be considered for down-scheduling from S4 to S3.
What do pharmacists think of the potential down-scheduling of specific S4 medicines? A team of Griffith University academics have been researching pharmacists to build a picture of the profession's views.
Here the researchers - Denise Hope, Amary Mey, Fiona Kelly and Michelle King - summarise their findings and overview the potential implications.Full Tex
Liverpool in Layers; mapping a sense of place
No full textLiverpool in layers; mapping a sense of place
This 96 page book details in full colour the context, the content and the making of the Liverpool Map, a multi-layered glass sculpture which was commissioned by the Museum of Liverpool to commemorate 2008; City of Culture. It is now housed in the Museum of Liverpool and encapsulated the cultural terrain of the Liverpool with a sense of place denoted and voted for by the people of Liverpool.
ISBN 978-0-9556547-7-0
Publisher; Capsica
Author: Fiona Shaw (tbc
The context, mechanisms and outcomes of intergenerational programmes involving people living with dementia in Scotland: A realist, qualitative study
No full textFiona Kelly - ORCID: 0000-0002-5608-0332
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5608-0332Intergenerational programmes, involving activity-based interventions designed to promote mutually beneficial interactions between participants, have been used in Scotland and further afield as a means of generating social inclusion between different age groups. There is growing interest in the potential outcomes of intergenerational programmes for people living with dementia in particular, with policy in Scotland recognising that people living with dementia and their carers may be at greater risk of loneliness and social isolation. Given this interest, there is a need to explore what ‘intergenerational best practice’ may look like for people living with dementia. Using data from semi-structured interviews with thirteen stakeholders involved in intergenerational practice and/or dementia policymaking, this study explored the contextual factors, mechanisms, and outcomes of intergenerational programmes in the Scottish context. Stakeholders perceived the concerns of carers, perceptions of risk, along with inaccessible venues and transportation to be important contextual factors. Mechanisms that helped ensure programmes offered full and appropriate participation opportunities included ongoing, flexible programme planning; the provision of purpose and roles; and the use of older participants’ preferences, lived experience, and personhood. Overall intergenerational programmes were perceived to have the potential to promote beneficial outcomes for older participants living with dementia in Scotland.The author disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by a PhD bursary from Queen Margaret University.https://doi.org/10.1177/14713012251317767pubpu
How many focus markers are there in Konkomba?
No full textThis article discusses the divergent status of the two particles lé and lá in the grammar of Konkomba, a Gur language (Niger-Congo) of the Gurma subgroup. While previous studies claim that both particles are focus markers, this author argues that only the particle lá should be analyzed as a pure pragmatic device. Distributional studies suggest that the use of particle lé, on the other hand, is only required under specific focus conditions, and primarily represents a syntactic device
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