INTERDEM & Covid-19 initiatives

INTERDEM members used their expertise to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic. Read more to find links to these important initiatives: blogs, news, guidance, webinars, articles​

Name Covid-19 related activity Covid-19
Denig, Tom Tom.Dening@nottingham.ac.uk

 

Blog

Dementia Day to Day blogsite:

https://idea.nottingham.ac.uk/blogs/posts/death-and-grief-after-covid-19-1

https://idea.nottingham.ac.uk/blogs/posts/recovering-intensive-care

https://idea.nottingham.ac.uk/blogs/posts/deaths-outside-hospital

https://idea.nottingham.ac.uk/blogs/posts/our-coronavirus-crisis

https://idea.nottingham.ac.uk/blogs/posts/fair-weather-rhetoric

https://idea.nottingham.ac.uk/blogs/posts/are-bubbles-response-covid-19

https://idea.nottingham.ac.uk/blogs/posts/new-normal

Koopmans, Raymond Raymond.koopmans@radboudumc.nl

 

Article

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-psychogeriatrics/article/providing-quality-endoflife-care-to-older-people-in-the-era-of-covid19-perspectives-from-five-countries/1FFFD74F9DF9DA31FF51BC3EDE76E281
Samsi, Kritika kritika.1.samsi@kcl.ac.uk

 

Guidance in the light of Covid-19

 

Blog

‘Helping adult day centres to ‘unlock lockdown is free of charge, can be easily downloaded and printed off. Please follow this link to find the resource www.kcl.ac.uk/scwru/res/ARC-SL/unlock-lockdown.aspx. It has two parts:

·         Part 1 covers some of the practicalities of re-opening, 

 

·         Part 2 is an editable Word document that aims to prompt reflection on what has happened during lockdown

Blog  https://blogs.kcl.ac.uk/socialcareworkforce/2020/07/02/resource-for-day-centres-guide-for-adult-day-centres-to-unlock-lockdown-safely/.

Giebel, Clarissa Clarissa.Giebel@liverpool.ac.uk

 

Research

COVID19 dementia research in the UK (which is now also expanding globally to Italy, India, Australia, and Poland).
Tischler, Victoria Victoria.Tischler@nottingham.ac.uk

Research

 Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)  research project

•Aims: Funded by AHRC (Covid-19 UKRI) the project will:

•1) co-design Culture Boxes  incorporating pandemic guidance and creative activities to alleviate social isolation, loneliness and responsive behaviours in care homes

•2) deliver Culture Boxes (physical and digital) for 12 months

•3) measure impact using Participatory Action Research (PAR)

•Collaborating centres/Institutions: Royal Academy of Music; University of the Arts London; Culture&

Block, Lieve van den Lieve.Van.den.Block@vub.be

Article

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-psychogeriatrics/article/providing-quality-endoflife-care-to-older-people-in-the-era-of-covid19-perspectives-from-five-countries/1FFFD74F9DF9DA31FF51BC3EDE76E281

https://www.jpsmjournal.com/article/S0885-3924(20)30372-9/abstract

nina.wollersberger@pgr.anglia.ac.uk

Helen.Odell-Miller@anglia.ac.uk

 

Ongoing research project

Online support

The Cambridge Institute for Music Therapy Research and COVID-19

Together in Sound –

https://aru.ac.uk/news/couples-with-dementia-are-still-together-in-sound

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-essex-52375524/coronavirus-online-music-therapy-group-a-lifeline-in-pandemic

Homeside –

https://aru.ac.uk/cambridge-institute-for-music-therapy-research/news/homeside-moves-online

https://aru.ac.uk/cambridge-institute-for-music-therapy-research/news/participant-and-public-involvement-in-the-uk

https://aru.ac.uk/cambridge-institute-for-music-therapy-research/news/international-participant-and-public-involvement

Gove, Dianne Dianne.Gove@alzheimer-europe.org

 

Article

Guidance in the light of Covid-19

 

Position paper on how to support people with dementia during pandemic

 

https://www.alzheimer-europe.org/News/COVID-19-situation

https://www.alzheimer-europe.org/Living-with-dementia/COVID-19

https://www.alzheimer-europe.org/Policy/Our-opinion-on/Triage-decisions-during-COVID-19-pandemic

https://www.alzheimer-europe.org/Policy/Our-opinion-on/Wellbeing-of-people-with-dementia-during-COVID-19-pandemic

Bunn, Frances f.bunn@herts.ac.uk

Guidance in the light of Covid-19

Blog

 https://arc-eoe.nihr.ac.uk/news-insights/news-latest/top-tips-tricky-times
Myrra Vernooij-Dassen, Frns Verhey Myrra.vernooij-dassen@radboudumc.nl

 

Webinar

Article

 

Webinar IPA/INTERDEM  Covid-19, social distancing and its impact on social and mental health of elderly population

https://www.ipa-online.org/events/online-education/covid19-webinar

The risks of social distancing for older adults: a call to balance.

Vernooij-Dassen M, Verhey F, Lapid M.Int Psychogeriatr. 2020 Jun 24:1-7.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32576306/