Brain health, dementia and delirium

We recognise that supporting those with lived experience of dementia, and reducing incidence rates for people who may be at risk of developing dementia, requires an interdisciplinary collaborative approach.

Our researchers work across disciplines, sectors, and populations, striving to ensure our work is inclusive and impactful.

Our network’s partners include the Greater Manchester Integrated Care Board’s programme for dementia, Dementia United, as well as the Alzheimer’s Society, the NIHR-ARC and DEM-COMM Programme, and our newly formed community advisory group, the Dementia Research Action Group: Our Network (DRAGON).

Our team use a range of approaches and methodologies to research aspects of dementia care, support and prevention, including digital technologies, a range of creative methodologies, and participatory and mixed methods approaches.

Our goals include fostering interdisciplinary collaboration, addressing community needs and encouraging public participation in research advocacy.

Our objectives

  • Improve patient safety through innovative solutions, including delirium detection digital interventions to promote wellbeing and health management.
  • Develop a better understanding of the spectrum of modifiable factors that impact brain health, risk reduction including delirium prevention, and the ability to live well with dementia. This includes how diverse communities view, understand and interact with these risk factors, and how this impacts inequality in brain health and wellbeing as individuals and communities age.
  • Embed co-design approaches across all our work, developing meaningful interventions and measures of success grounded in outcomes relevant to those with lived experience of dementia.

Current projects

Some of our projects relating to physical activity and exercise are funded through and conducted via the NIHR Greater Manchester Applied Research Collaboration Healthy Ageing Theme.

Resources

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