Publications and knowledge exchange

Resources

Assura, Designing for Everyone environmental assessment toolkit for primary care premises

The suite of tools, which includes easy read versions, is available free to download via the Dimensions website.

CHARM manual to help care homes conduct research

The CHARM Framework Manual and an associated library of resources are available here.

DemECH booklets about extra care housing

Three booklets have been developed to provide key insights from this research project, and are aimed at different audiences:

• A booklet for people and families affected by dementia
• A booklet for organisations providing Extra Care Housing for people living with dementia
• A booklet for adult social care commissioners and professionals

Environmental assessment tools

A suite of assessment tools and related resources relating to making your home and garden dementia friendly, as well as a guide for making village halls dementia friendly, can be found here.

Get Real with Meeting Centres

All of the booklets and videos of the research findings can be found here.

Meeting Centres

The following two videos indicate what Meeting Centres are, focusing on two different audiences:

• Members and carers
• Referrers

Additional Meeting Centre resources can also be found here.

Namaste

The following resources have been produced as a result of the project and are available to use:

• Guidance for Care Homes
• Guidance for Namaste Care Workers
• A short film about Namaste Care
• The full version of the Namaste Care film - Seeing is Believing

SCIDem booklets about sustainable community initiatives

We have produced three booklets aimed at different audiences that outline what was found in the SCI-Dem review, which can be downloaded here:

• Keeping community groups and activities going: Recommendations for practice from the SCI-Dem Project
• Sustaining community groups and activities for people affected by dementia: Recommendations from the SCI-Dem Project for commissioners and policy-makers
• Helping your community group or activity club to keep going strong: Suggestions for members of groups and clubs from the SCI-Dem Review

Journal articles

To date, we have authored or co-authored over 170 journal articles. A full list is available.

Conference and event presentations

We have presented at over 630 conferences and events since 2009 and a full list is available.

Posters

Over 60 posters of our work have been displayed at conferences and events. See the full list for more information.

Books, book chapters and reviews

We've done our fair share of writing and reviewing books and book chapters, and you can find out more by seeing the full list.

Reports

In addition to project reports and outputs, we often have input to a wide range of external reports. A full list is available.

Blogs and podcasts

As well as writing for our own blogs on ADS, Meeting Centres and SCI-Dem, we also write for other blogs or produce podcasts. You can find out more from our full list.