Faith Frost

Teaching & Research

Research: 

Faith is a Research Associate within ADS, who has experience conducting research within the care home sector with staff, family members and people living with dementia.

Her role includes:

• Building relationships and working collaboratively with people participating in research studies
• Project planning and the day-to-day running of projects
• Literature searching, data collection (including conducting interviews, running focus groups and undertaking observations) and research analysis
• Dissemination of research findings

She has worked across projects such as Namaste Care Intervention UK, a 3-year implementation project funded by the Alzheimer’s Society. The project was funded to help UK based care homes to provide better care for people living with advanced dementia, developing the optimal Namaste Care Intervention UK model, based on the work of Joyce Simard, US.

Faith has also worked on research funded by the Alzheimer’s Society and Dunhill Medical Trust titled CHARM (Care home action researcher in residence model). Throughout this project, she has worked with care homes to provide them with support to conduct their own independent research studies. The findings from this research will provide a framework for the CHARM model, with the aim for it to be rolled out across further care homes.

Faith has also worked in collaboration with CareUK, managing and conducting the research project, ‘Wear to Care: A person-centred exploratory study of care staff clothing in care homes for people living with dementia’. This research collated opinions from staff, relatives and residents about their views on staff uniforms and badges to inform future decision making.

Faith is currently working on the NIHR funded project, Get Real with Meeting Centres: A realist evaluation of locally-driven social care for those affected by dementia.

Current projects involved 

• Get Real with Meeting Centres: A realist evaluation of locally-driven social care for those affected by dementia
• CHARM (Care Home Action Researcher in Residence Model)

Completed projects 

• Namaste Care Intervention UK - Delivering excellent care every day for people living with advanced dementia.
• Wear to Care: A person-centred exploratory study of care staff clothing in care homes for people living with dementia 

Knowledge Transfer

Faith has a strong passion for integrating her experience in design with sharing her knowledge and research findings in a creative and accessible way. See below for some of the knowledge transfer she has contributed to:

• The CHARM Framework: A step-by-step guide for care homes to conduct their own research projects
• Film: Designing the Namaste Care film ‘Seeing is Believing’
• Online Community of Practice: Designing and managing Namaste Care Intervention UK Community of Practice
• ADS hosted Webinar Presentation: Namaste Care Intervention UK research findings, ‘Implementing Namaste Care: a 1-day online webinar’ (2020)
• Event Poster: ‘Namaste Care Intervention UK’, NIHR CRN WM Ageing/ENRICH event, Older Adult Care (2018)
• Namaste Care Guidance Manuals: Guidance for Care Homes & Guidance for Namaste Care Workers
• ADS Blog Contributions

Publications and dissemination

Articles

Frost, F., Atkinson, T. and Latham, I. (2020). Creating the optimal space for dementia care. The Care Environment Magazine Article

Journal articles 

Morton, T., Evans, S.B., Swift, R., Bray, J., Frost, F. & Russell, C. (2024). Reaching people and managing membership in community-based dementia support groups: The Get Real with Meeting Centres Realist Evaluation Part 1, Aging & Mental Health, https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2024.2356885

Morton, T., Evans, S. B., Swift, R., Bray, J., Frost, F., Russell, C., Brooker, D., Wong, G. & Hullah, N. (2024). Strategic and operational issues in sustaining community-based dementia support groups: the Get Real with Meeting Centres realist evaluation part 2. Aging & Mental Health, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2024.2372058

Tinelli, M., Morton, T., Bray, J., Henderson, C., Frost, F., & Evans, S. (2024). Using choice modelling to inform service sustainability for dementia Meeting Centres for people living with dementia in the UK. Aging & Mental Health, 28(12), 1713–1725. https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2024.2375609

Morton, T., Evans, S., Swift, R., Bray, J. and Frost, F. (2023), "The legacy of COVID-19 in dementia community support: ongoing impacts on the running of meeting centres", Working with Older People, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/WWOP-03-2023-0006

Latham, l., Dobson, A., Frost, F., Mumford, S., Williamson, T., (2022). Introducing CHARM, The Care Home Action Researcher-in-residence Model. Journal of Dementia Care, 30(1), 26-29

Bray, J., Brooker, D., Frost, F. & Mumford, S. (2022). Care home uniforms: exploring stakeholders' views on clothing options for staff, Nursing Older People. Doi:10.7748/nop.2022.e1379

Frost, F., Thompson, T., Matthews, K., White, D., Latham, I., Mumford, S., and Williamson, T. (2022) Covid in a care home: The experience and impact of Covid-19 and a home’s recovery from a staff perspective. Journal of Dementia Care, 30(5), 24-29

Latham, I., Frost, F., Dobson, A., Mumford, S. & Williamson, T. (2022) "I didn't even know you had this job!" The outcomes and facilitators of the Care Home Action Researcher-in-residence Model (CHARM). Journal of Dementia Care, 30(3) 14-19.

Morton, T., Evans, S.B., Brooker, D., Williamson, T., Wong, G., Tinelli, M., Frost, F., Bray, J. & Hullah, N. (2022). Sustainability of locally driven centres for those affected by dementia: a protocol for the get real with meeting centres realist evaluation. BMJ Open,12(5) e062697. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-062697

Frost, F., Bray, J., Brooker, D. & Mumford, S. (2021). What should we wear to care? An exploratory study. Journal of Dementia Care, 29(6), 24-27

Bray, J., Brooker, D. Frost, F. & Mumford, S. (2021) What should we wear to care? A person-centred study of care staff clothing in care homes for people with dementia. Nursing Older People. ISSN Print: 1472-0795 Online: 2047-8941 (In-press)

Latham, I., Brooker, D., Bray, J., Jacobson-Wright, N. and Frost, F. (2020). The Impact of Implementing a Namaste Care Intervention in UK Care Homes for People Living with Advanced Dementia, Staff and Families. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17(16), 6004

Bray, J., Brooker, D., Latham, I., Wray, F.* and Baines, D. (2019) Costing resource use of the Namaste Care Intervention UK: A novel framework for costing dementia care interventions in care homes. International Psycho-geriatrics

Research reports and outputs

Morton, T., Swift, R., Evans, S.B., Bray, J., Frost, F. & Wong, G. (2023). What you can do to help your Meeting Centre: Suggestions for people who attend Meeting Centres. University of Worcester ISBN 978-0-903607-42-1

Morton, T., Swift, R., Evans, S.B., Bray, J., Frost, F. & Wong, G. (2023). Keeping Meeting Centres going long term: Recommendations for people running Meeting Centres. University of Worcester ISBN 978-0-903607-43-8

Morton, T., Swift, R., Evans, S.B., Bray, J., Frost, F. & Wong, G. (2023). Sustaining Meeting Centres and similar community-led dementia support: Suggestions for health and care professionals. University of Worcester ISBN 978-0-903607-44-5

Frost, F., Latham, I. & Williamson, T. (2021). The CHARM Framework: A step-by-step guide for care homes to conduct their own research projects. Association for Dementia Studies

Latham, I., Frost, F. & Williamson, T. (2021). The Care Home Action Researcher-in-residence model (CHARM) Study: co-production, implementation and evaluation. Association for Dementia Studies

Delivering Excellent Care Every Day for People Living with Advanced Dementia. Namaste Care UK Implementation Research (2016-2019)

Wear to Care: A person-centred exploratory study of care staff clothing in care homes for people living with dementia, A collaboration between the Association for Dementia Studies and Care UK Care Homes (December 2020)

Conference presentations 

Frost, F. & Bushell, D. (2024) Crossing the line: providing personal care in the context of families affected by dementia. The Palliative and End of Life Care and Dementia ECHO Knowledge Network, Dementia UK and Hospice UK, online

Frost, F., Bushell, D., Morton, T. & Williamson, T. (2024) Crossing the Line symposium. Using the toilet when out and about: personal care considerations for family carers supporting someone with dementia. Impact of involvement of Experts by Experience in research to support carers in personal care-giving. Helping someone living with dementia with personal care: Common themes from lived experience. UK Dementia Congress, Coventry

Williamson, T., Latham, L., Frost., F., (2022) CHARM: Optimising research environments in care homes – insights from the Care Home Action Researcher-in-residence Model. CADR Conference 2022 Shaping Environments; Shaping Lives? (Video presentation)

Latham, I. & Frost, F. (2021) What is CHARM (the Care Home Action Researcher in residence Model)? National Centre for Research Methods - Research Methods e-festival, online

Latham, I. & Frost, F. 'CHARMed to work with you': Using the action researcher-in-residence model in care homes. UK Dementia Congress 2020 (video presentation)

Mumford, S. & Frost, F. Wear to care – uniforms in care homes, UK Dementia Congress 2020 (Video presentation)

Jacobson-Wright, N., & Wray, F., Namaste Care Initial Findings, 13^th UK Dementia Congress 2018 (Conference Presentation)

Conference Posters:

Frost, F. Crossing the Line: Providing personal care in the context of families affected by dementia. UK Dementia, Congress, Coventry, 2024

Morton, T., Evans, S.B., Frost, F., Bray, J., Swift, R. & Russell, C. Keeping Meeting Centres for people affected by dementia going in a post-pandemic climate: The Get Real Study. UK Dementia Congress, Birmingham, 2022

Wray, F., Does Namaste care provide a practical model for caring for people living with advanced dementia in UK care homes? Initial reflections from the Namaste Care Intervention UK Implementation Project. The 'H' Factor: Holistic themes in palliative care, Worcester 2018

Latham.L., Wray, F., Does Namaste Care provide a practical model for caring for people living with advanced dementia in UK care homes? Initial reflections from the Namaste Care Intervention UK Implementation project (2018), Alzheimer’s Society Annual Conference 2018

Wray, F., Namaste. NIHR Clinical Research Network West Midlands Ageing speciality and ENRICH (Enabling Research In Care Homes) event, Birmingham 2017