Dementia: attitudes, knowledge and experience
This page outlines ARK projects and resources relating to dementia.
Survey research
The Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey included questions on attitudes and knowledge of dementia in 2010 and 2014.
- Dementia: look closer (Research Update 104) by Elizabeth Byrne McCullough and Paula Devine is based on data from the Dementia module within the 2014 Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey.
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Factors associated with public knowledge of and attitudes to dementia: a cross-sectional study, by M Rosata, G Cooper, P de Cock and P Devine, Plos One 14 (2), is a journal article based on the 2014 survey data.
- Public attitudes and knowledge of dementia: Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland and Scotland (Discussion paper) by Paula Devine is based on 2014 survey data.
- Dementia: public knowledge and attitudes (Research Update 77) by Maria McManus and Paula Devine is based on data from the Dementia modules within the 2010 Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey. This was accompanied by a seminar – see the video recording here.
- Attitudes to, and knowledge of, dementia in Northern Ireland (ARK Occasional Paper) by Lizanne Dowds, Patricia McParland, Paula Devine and Ann Marie Gray, is based on data from the Dementia modules within the 2010 Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey.
- A teaching dataset has been created based on the 2014 Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey module on dementia. This is designed to be used on undergraduate and postgraduate courses teaching quantitative statistical analysis in the social sciences.
Dementia in the minds of characters and readers
This research project started in May 2020, and explores the potential of fiction featuring characters with dementia to improve awareness of and empathy towards people living with the condition.
Arts-based programmes for people with dementia
The Arts for Dementia in North America; Learning from Practice is Amy Veale’s report of her 2015 Winston Churchill fellowship.
Evaluating arts-based programmes for people with dementia, and their impact on wellbeing is a discussion paper by Paula Devine and Katrina Lloyd.