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.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